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    CVE-2017-16808

    tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read related to aoe_print in print-aoe.c and lookup_emem in addrtoname.c.

    Published:Nov 13, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Nov 13, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.01159
    CVSS Score:5.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Tcpdump
    Product
    Tcpdump

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-540 Overread Buffers

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    CVE-2020-8036 (CVSS 7.5) — The tok2strbuf() function in tcpdump 4.10.0-PRE-GIT was used by the SOME/IP dissector in an unsafe way.…
    CVE-2018-16229 (CVSS 7.5) — The DCCP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-dccp.c:dccp_print_option().…
    CVE-2018-16227 (CVSS 7.5) — The IEEE 802.11 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-802_11.c for the Mesh Flags sub…
    CVE-2018-14467 (CVSS 7.5) — The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-bgp.c:bgp_capabilities_print() (BGP_CAP…
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    CVE-2018-14882 (CVSS 7.5) — The ICMPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-icmp6.c.…
    CVE-2018-14463 (CVSS 7.5) — The VRRP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-vrrp.c:vrrp_print() for VRRP version 2…
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    References

    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00065.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154710/Slackware-Security-Advisory-tcpdump-Updates.html
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039773
    https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES
    https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/645
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/2
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788
    https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/
    https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00065.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154710/Slackware-Security-Advisory-tcpdump-Updates.html
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039773
    https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES
    https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/645
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/2
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788
    https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/
    https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/

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