vulnerability

IBM AIX: tcpdump_advisory5 (CVE-2017-16808): Vulnerabilities in tcpdump affect AIX

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 13, 2017
Added
Jan 9, 2020
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read related to aoe_print in print-aoe.c and lookup_emem in addrtoname.c.

Solution

ibm-aix-tcpdump_advisory5
Title
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