Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libpcap  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-LIBPCAP-1372372
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Feb 2017

Introduced: 2 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-5341  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (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 libpcap package and not the libpcap package as distributed by RHEL.

The OTV parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-otv.c:otv_print().