[Secure-testing-team] Bug#866721: ntopng: CVE-2017-7458

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: ntopng
Version: 1.2.1+dfsg1-1.1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream patch security fixed-upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for ntopng.

CVE-2017-7458[0]:
| The NetworkInterface::getHost function in NetworkInterface.cpp in
| ntopng before 3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
| (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an empty field
| that should have contained a hostname or IP address.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7458
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7458
[1] https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/commit/01f47e04fd7c8d54399c9e465f823f0017069f8f

Regards,
Salvatore