The IEEE 802.11 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-802_11.c:parse_elements().
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade tcpdump | Sep 21, 2017 | Sep 14, 2017 |
| Apple Osx Tcpdump | — | Upgrade macOS to the latest versionApply OS X security update 2017-001 Sierra | Nov 1, 2017 | Sep 14, 2017 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Sep 14, 2017 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade tcpdump | Sep 13, 2017 | Sep 13, 2017 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade tcpdump | Sep 26, 2017 | Sep 26, 2017 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade net-analyzer/tcpdump. | Oct 30, 2017 | Sep 14, 2017 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp1 | — | Upgrade tcpdump | Nov 30, 2017 | Sep 14, 2017 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2 | — | Upgrade tcpdump | Nov 30, 2017 | Sep 14, 2017 |
| Ibm Aix | — | Apply the fix or workaround for tcpdump_advisory3 | Nov 30, 2017 | Sep 14, 2017 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade diagnostic/tcpdump to version 4.9.2-0.175.3.26.0.3.0 on Solaris 11.3 | Nov 30, 2017 | Sep 14, 2017 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 9, 2025 | Sep 13, 2017 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade tcpdump | Oct 26, 2017 | Sep 13, 2017 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade tcpdump | Sep 14, 2017 | Sep 13, 2017 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Sep 14, 2017 |
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