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OS X update for tcpdump (CVE-2017-13011)

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OS X update for tcpdump (CVE-2017-13011)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/14/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/01/2017
Modified
03/18/2020

Description

Several protocol parsers in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could cause a buffer overflow in util-print.c:bittok2str_internal().

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-security-update-2017-001-sierra
  • apple-osx-upgrade-10_13_1

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