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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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-04 15:17 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://support.apple.com/HT208221 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3971 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039307 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
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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