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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-13017): tcpdump vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 13, 2017
Added
Sep 14, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The DHCPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-dhcp6.c:dhcp6opt_print().

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-tcpdump
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