CVE-2017-5204 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Tcpdump

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-125 — Out-of-bounds ReadCWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound11 documents10 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
2.6%
top 14.37%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
8
TcpdumpDebian LinuxRedhat Enterprise Linux Desktop+5 more
Timeline
PublishedJan 28
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The IPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-ip6.c:ip6_print().

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶NVDtcpdump/tcpdump< 4.9.0
▶Debiantcpdump/tcpdump< 4.9.0-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Enterprise Linux 7.4, 7.6, 7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-57w3-589g-v9r8: The IPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2017-5204: The IPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4↗2017-01-28
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OSV
CVE-2017-5204: The IPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4↗2017-01-28
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Apple
CVE-2017-5204: macOS Sierra 10.12.4, Security Update 2017-001 El Capitan, and Security Update 2017-001 Yosemite↗2017-03-27
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Ubuntu
tcpdump vulnerabilities↗2017-02-21
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Red Hat
tcpdump: multiple overflow issues in protocol decoding↗2017-02-02
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Debian
CVE-2017-5204: tcpdump - The IPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-ip6.c:ip6...↗2017
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💬Community

3
HackerOne
CVE-2017-5204: The IPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-ip6.c:ip6_print()↗2019-10-08
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Bugzilla
tcpdump: multiple overflow issues in protocol decoding↗2017-02-03
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Bugzilla
tcpdump: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-02-03
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CVE-2017-5204 — Tcpdump vulnerability | cvebase