Improper Bounds Check (CWE-787) in Packetbeat can allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to exploit a Buffer Overflow (CAPEC-100) and reliably crash the application or cause significant resource exhaustion via a single crafted UDP packet with an invalid fragment sequence number.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| elasticsearch / packetbeat | 7.0.0 | 7.17.29.x |
| elasticsearch / packetbeat | 8.0.0 | 8.19.9 |
| elasticsearch / packetbeat | 9.0.0 | 9.1.9 |
| elasticsearch / packetbeat | 9.2.0 | 9.2.3 |