vulnerability

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

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 13, 2017
Added
Sep 14, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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

ubuntu-upgrade-tcpdump
Title
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