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CVE-2017-12985
The IPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-ip6.c:ip6_print().
Critical9.8EPSS 3.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The IPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-ip6.c:ip6_print().
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- GLSA-201709-23 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT208221 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3971 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1039307 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/66df248b49095c261138b5a5e34d341a6bf9ac7f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump-changes.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHEA-2018:0705 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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