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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-7993: tcpdump Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-7993: tcpdump Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/27/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

A bug in util-print.c:relts_print() in tcpdump before 4.9.0 could cause a buffer overflow in multiple protocol parsers (DNS, DVMRP, HSRP, IGMP, lightweight resolver protocol, PIM).

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-tcpdump

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