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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-12995): tcpdump vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-12995): tcpdump vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/13/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/14/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

The DNS parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could enter an infinite loop due to a bug in print-domain.c:ns_print().

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-tcpdump

References

  • USN-3415-1
  • USN-3415-2
  • DSA-3971
  • CVE-2017-12995

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