CVE-2017-16808

Summary

CVECVE-2017-16808
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-11-13 21:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:40:00 UTC
Descriptiontcpdump before 4.9.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read related to aoe_print in print-aoe.c and lookup_emem in addrtoname.c.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Tcpdump Tcpdump 4.9.2 All All All
Application Tcpdump Tcpdump 4.9.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2344-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1964-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: tcpdump-4.9.3-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2019-12-10-3 macOS Catalina 10.15.2, Security Update 2019-002 Mojave, Security Update 2019-007 High Sierra FULLDISC seclists.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: tcpdump-4.9.3-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Bugtraq: [slackware-security] tcpdump (SSA:2019-274-01) BUGTRAQ seclists.org
USN-4252-1: tcpdump vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: tcpdump-4.9.3-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
tcpdump/CHANGES at tcpdump-4.9 · the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump · GitHub MISC github.com
USN-4252-2: tcpdump vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
About the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15.2, Security Update 2019-002 Mojave, Security Update 2019-007 High Sierra - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: tcpdump-4.9.3-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2348-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: tcpdump-4.9.3-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Tcpdump Heap Overread in 'addrtoname.c' Lets Remote Users Cause the Target Service to Crash - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Heap Overread triggered by sending specific packets over a interface being monitored by TCPDump, as well as while trying to parse the pcap file of these packets · Issue #645 · the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: tcpdump-4.9.3-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Slackware Security Advisory - tcpdump Updates ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
Bugtraq: APPLE-SA-2019-12-10-3 macOS Catalina 10.15.2, Security Update 2019-002 Mojave, Security Update 2019-007 High Sierra BUGTRAQ seclists.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296080 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 13.4.0 Missing (CPUJUL2019)
  • 500686 Alpine Linux Security Update for tcpdump
  • 504455 Alpine Linux Security Update for tcpdump
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