vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2017-11541)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 23, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A heap-based out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump <= 4.9.1, in the lldp_print function in print-lldp.c, related to util-print.c. An attacker could craft a malicious pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network that would cause tcpdump to crash when attempting to print a summary of the packet data.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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