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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-13038: Buffer over-read in print-ppp.chandle_mlppp() in PPP

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-13038: Buffer over-read in print-ppp.chandle_mlppp() in PPP

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/14/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/21/2017
Modified
12/27/2019

Description

The PPP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-ppp.c:handle_mlppp().

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-tcpdump

References

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