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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-7926: tcpdump: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-7926: tcpdump: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/27/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
01/08/2018

Description

The Ethernet parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-ether.c:ethertype_print().

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-analyzer-tcpdump

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