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CVE-2017-13028

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The BOOTP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-bootp.c:bootp_print().

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• The Tcpdump Group tcpdump: through 4.9.1

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3971
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039307
• http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump-changes.txt
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0705
• https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/29e5470e6ab84badbc31f4532bb7554a796d9d52
• https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/66e22961b30547e9a8daa1f0e8dc9fbe6e2698fa
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-23
• https://support.apple.com/HT208221
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3971
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039307
• http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump-changes.txt
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0705

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