CVE-2017-5204

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5204
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5204.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5204
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-01-28T01:59:01Z
Modified
2025-09-16T06:44:35.424738Z
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 IPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-ip6.c:ip6_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

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
4.9.0-1

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
4.9.0-1

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
4.9.0-1

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
4.9.0-1

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
cae54f4d943f163541dc7a90f7f5b432859955e4

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

Database specific 

{
    "vanir_signatures": [
        {
            "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/cae54f4d943f163541dc7a90f7f5b432859955e4",
            "signature_type": "Function",
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "target": {
                "file": "print-ether.c",
                "function": "ethertype_print"
            },
            "deprecated": false,
            "digest": {
                "function_hash": "31486734027380005103230538229483283558",
                "length": 2587.0
            },
            "id": "CVE-2017-5204-2ba3af18"
        },
        {
            "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/cae54f4d943f163541dc7a90f7f5b432859955e4",
            "signature_type": "Line",
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "target": {
                "file": "print-ether.c"
            },
            "deprecated": false,
            "digest": {
                "threshold": 0.9,
                "line_hashes": [
                    "289962869142539033919548699903735971895",
                    "321187814844074319440356878954916582618",
                    "96278794428690994985504688327165122951",
                    "334924286569736786368128921431302191310"
                ]
            },
            "id": "CVE-2017-5204-4cb9a0ba"
        },
        {
            "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/cae54f4d943f163541dc7a90f7f5b432859955e4",
            "signature_type": "Line",
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "target": {
                "file": "netdissect.h"
            },
            "deprecated": false,
            "digest": {
                "threshold": 0.9,
                "line_hashes": [
                    "208063356587562841728207749352312617633",
                    "94369104648756919419866969560637031504",
                    "158530789875360221930177539868533298858",
                    "253446335086249471187651377860820435235"
                ]
            },
            "id": "CVE-2017-5204-7041f422"
        },
        {
            "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/cae54f4d943f163541dc7a90f7f5b432859955e4",
            "signature_type": "Line",
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "target": {
                "file": "print-medsa.c"
            },
            "deprecated": false,
            "digest": {
                "threshold": 0.9,
                "line_hashes": [
                    "114946376029719487727067709523051033051",
                    "227334674829184980067944298911146947115",
                    "210376600301944043403573276686938546462",
                    "178848560193805662289114191287577780030",
                    "275264082656881882204531968707571331121",
                    "125472290036734832543852872169378264835",
                    "173676936645231007527992549401569557625",
                    "288479365740565370114994721279060580351",
                    "109609806529605983880753254914716894236",
                    "142606612004130782709107352262636392155",
                    "29719618684433844042017610474921887645",
                    "226023839603229667093098466115918767045",
                    "72712425789080240366374511061789058613",
                    "151346982239502861005805789530967240933",
                    "336759652068049672908093915736280119824",
                    "206371089863004604069910662208531735471",
                    "223713852872945044680520491862189426699",
                    "190210319895479423224763214308807174099",
                    "79472329640795828550526242935079441795",
                    "337237102835808452012520121951202183188",
                    "326954748457766422394896389595937310919",
                    "164383034353028065510931221836837725166",
                    "232747210196469577238906567634162708264",
                    "100592845038565327953900512326475285722",
                    "109264432762985498185441714222958983220"
                ]
            },
            "id": "CVE-2017-5204-90c9aa2a"
        },
        {
            "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/cae54f4d943f163541dc7a90f7f5b432859955e4",
            "signature_type": "Function",
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "target": {
                "file": "print-medsa.c",
                "function": "medsa_print"
            },
            "deprecated": false,
            "digest": {
                "function_hash": "285468102648205064789132629197542510522",
                "length": 1324.0
            },
            "id": "CVE-2017-5204-e7c0e582"
        }
    ]
}