VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-12894

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability2.53%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-09-14
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Several protocol parsers in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could cause a buffer over-read in addrtoname.c:lookup_bytestring().

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references