Out-of-Bounds Affecting tcpdump package, versions <4.9.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.9% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-TCPDUMP-390847
  • published14 Sept 2017
  • disclosed14 Sept 2017

Introduced: 14 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-13011  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 tcpdump to version 4.9.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Several protocol parsers in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could cause a buffer overflow in util-print.c:bittok2str_internal().