Out-of-Bounds Affecting tcpdump package, versions [,4.9.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.51% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TCPDUMP-2369872
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-7939  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tcpdump to version 4.9.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The GRE parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-gre.c, multiple functions.

CVSS Scores

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