CVE-2016-7939

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7939
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7939.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-7939
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-01-28T01:59:00.657Z
Modified
2025-11-14T04:50:46.274062Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The GRE parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-gre.c, multiple functions.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
af974494da71f2dae8eeac40e1611db5d6a82668

Affected versions

tcpdump-3.*

tcpdump-3.5.1
tcpdump-3.6.1
tcpdump-3.7.1
tcpdump-3.8-bp

tcpdump-4.*

tcpdump-4.5.0
tcpdump-4.6.0
tcpdump-4.6.0-bp
tcpdump-4.7.0-bp
tcpdump-4.8.0-bp
tcpdump-4.8.1

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7939.json"