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CentOS Linux: CVE-2016-7984: Moderate: tcpdump security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2017:1871)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 28, 2017
Added
Aug 28, 2019
Modified
May 25, 2023

Description

The TFTP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-tftp.c:tftp_print().

Solutions

centos-upgrade-tcpdumpcentos-upgrade-tcpdump-debuginfo
Title
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