Out-of-Bounds Affecting tcpdump package, versions <4.9.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.51% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-TCPDUMP-526149
  • published28 Jan 2017
  • disclosed28 Jan 2017

Introduced: 28 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-7936  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 tcpdump to version 4.9.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tcpdump package and not the tcpdump package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

The UDP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-udp.c:udp_print().