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F5 Networks: K94010578 (CVE-2016-7983): tcpdump vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7940, CVE-2016-7973, CVE-2016-7974, CVE-2016-7983, and CVE-2016-7984

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F5 Networks: K94010578 (CVE-2016-7983): tcpdump vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7940, CVE-2016-7973, CVE-2016-7974, CVE-2016-7983, and CVE-2016-7984

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/27/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/08/2017
Modified
09/16/2019

Description

The BOOTP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-bootp.c:bootp_print().

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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