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Debian: CVE-2016-8574: tcpdump -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-8574: tcpdump -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/27/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/30/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

The FRF.15 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-fr.c:frf15_print().

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-tcpdump

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