CVE-2017-12901 (GCVE-0-2017-12901)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-14 06:00 – Updated: 2025-12-04 15:40
VLAI
Summary
The EIGRP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-eigrp.c:eigrp_print().
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump-changes.txt x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0705 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/comm… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2017-09-14 00:00
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