Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package arpwatch  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-ARPWATCH-1372875
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Feb 2017

Introduced: 2 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-5342  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:6.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream arpwatch package and not the arpwatch package as distributed by RHEL.

In tcpdump before 4.9.0, a bug in multiple protocol parsers (Geneve, GRE, NSH, OTV, VXLAN and VXLAN GPE) could cause a buffer overflow in print-ether.c:ether_print().