CVE-2017-12899

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12899
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12899.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12899
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-09-14T06:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-16T06:39:51.029994Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The DECnet parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-decnet.c:decnet_print().

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

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
c6e0531b5def26ecf912e8de6ade86cbdaed3751
Fixed
f96003b21e2abfbba59b926b10a7f9bc7d11e36c

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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                ],
                "threshold": 0.9
            },
            "deprecated": false,
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/c6e0531b5def26ecf912e8de6ade86cbdaed3751",
            "signature_type": "Line",
            "id": "CVE-2017-12899-1c3fa5d3",
            "target": {
                "file": "print-decnet.c"
            }
        },
        {
            "digest": {
                "function_hash": "13135879451585810704536699378390137068",
                "length": 2702.0
            },
            "deprecated": false,
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/c6e0531b5def26ecf912e8de6ade86cbdaed3751",
            "signature_type": "Function",
            "id": "CVE-2017-12899-9f39db55",
            "target": {
                "function": "decnet_print",
                "file": "print-decnet.c"
            }
        }
    ]
}