CVE-2017-12900
Several protocol parsers in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could cause a buffer over-read in util-print.c:tok2strbuf().
02 Description
Several protocol parsers in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could cause a buffer over-read in util-print.c:tok2strbuf().
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.38% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-09-14 06:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 18:51Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-08-17
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9ff537c66981a9ed993abace87434f281f7136b8b4d3f3721f5adc8712c82080
05 Affected products
06 References
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201709-23https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-23
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/HT208221
- www.debian.orgDSA-3971http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3971
- www.securitytracker.com1039307http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039307
- www.tcpdump.orghttp://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump-changes.txt
- access.redhat.comRHEA-2018:0705https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0705
- github.comhttps://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/0318fa8b61bd6c837641129d585f1a73c652b1e0
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- tcpdump Fixed in 4.9.2-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- tcpdump Fixed in 4.9.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- tcpdump Fixed in 4.9.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- tcpdump Fixed in 4.9.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- tcpdump Fixed in 4.9.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- tcpdump Fixed in 4.9.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.