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CVE-2017-12985
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
0.03463
Risk score
40.41
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2017-09-14
Modified
2025-12-04
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2017-4503, GHSA-8XHC-728F-9CWJ
Products
n/a:n/a n/a
Sources
euvd
EUVD-2017-4503
Description
The IPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-ip6.c:ip6_print().
References
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-4503
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-23
https://support.apple.com/HT208221
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3971
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039307
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/66df248b49095c261138b5a5e34d341a6bf9ac7f
http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump-changes.txt
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0705