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Red Hat: CVE-2016-7928: Moderate: tcpdump security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2017:1871)

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Red Hat: CVE-2016-7928: Moderate: tcpdump security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2017:1871)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/27/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/03/2017
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

The IPComp parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-ipcomp.c:ipcomp_print().

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-tcpdump
  • redhat-upgrade-tcpdump-debuginfo

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