CVE-2017-12900

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12900
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JSON Data
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Published
2017-09-14T06:29:00Z
Modified
2025-07-01T03:49:18.725430Z
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

Several protocol parsers in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could cause a buffer over-read in util-print.c:tok2strbuf().

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"
}

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
0318fa8b61bd6c837641129d585f1a73c652b1e0

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