CVE-2017-12898

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12898
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12898.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12898
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-09-14T06:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-15T08:45:09.019289Z
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 NFS parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-nfs.c:interp_reply().

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
Fixed
19d25dd8781620cd41bf178a5e2e27fc1cf242d0

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-4.9.0-bp

Database specific

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