CVE-2016-7983

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7983
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7983.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-7983
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-01-28T01:59:00Z
Modified
2025-09-19T08:34:18.559263Z
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 BOOTP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-bootp.c:bootp_print().

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.10

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.11

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.12

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.13

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.14

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.15

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.16

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.17

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.18

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.19

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.2

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0

Alpine:v3.20

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.21

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.22

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.3

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0

Alpine:v3.4

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0

Alpine:v3.5

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.6

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.7

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.8

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

Alpine:v3.9

tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-r1
4.0.0-r2
4.1.1-r0
4.1.1-r1
4.1.1-r2
4.2.1-r0
4.3.0-r0
4.4.0-r0
4.5.1-r0
4.6.1-r0
4.6.2-r0
4.7.3-r0
4.7.4-r0
4.7.4-r1
4.7.4-r2

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