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IBM AIX: tcpdump_advisory3 (CVE-2017-13029): Vulnerabilities in tcpdump affect AIX

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 14, 2017
Added
Nov 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The PPP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-ppp.c:print_ccp_config_options().

Solution

ibm-aix-tcpdump_advisory3
Title
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