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CVE-2017-16808

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read related to aoe_print in print-aoe.c and lookup_emem in addrtoname.c.

Affected products

• The Tcpdump Group tcpdump: 4.9.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00065.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154710/Slackware-Security-Advisory-tcpdump-Updates.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039773
• https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES
• https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/645
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23

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