CVE-2017-12991

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12991
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12991.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12991
Downstream
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Published
2017-09-14T06:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-16T06:39:23.902351Z
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 BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-bgp.c:bgpattrprint().

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
50a44b6b8e4f7c127440dbd4239cf571945cc1e7

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 

{
    "vanir_signatures": [
        {
            "digest": {
                "function_hash": "295029212132483183672697495560089077830",
                "length": 25611.0
            },
            "deprecated": false,
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/50a44b6b8e4f7c127440dbd4239cf571945cc1e7",
            "signature_type": "Function",
            "id": "CVE-2017-12991-b7f23f44",
            "target": {
                "function": "bgp_attr_print",
                "file": "print-bgp.c"
            }
        },
        {
            "digest": {
                "line_hashes": [
                    "245773694374329174082484162818803088766",
                    "154274373918990530425658208715935972111",
                    "304340865847970542887382131320071485886",
                    "193321284312544786882466386329179784354"
                ],
                "threshold": 0.9
            },
            "deprecated": false,
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/50a44b6b8e4f7c127440dbd4239cf571945cc1e7",
            "signature_type": "Line",
            "id": "CVE-2017-12991-f7d24c74",
            "target": {
                "file": "print-bgp.c"
            }
        }
    ]
}