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Ubuntu: USN-3205-1 (CVE-2016-7939): tcpdump vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3205-1 (CVE-2016-7939): tcpdump 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
02/22/2017
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

The GRE parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-gre.c, multiple functions.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-tcpdump

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