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CVE-2017-13011

tcpdump: Buffer overflow in util-print.c:bittok2str_internal()

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · September 13, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in tcpdump's verbose printing of packet data. A crafted pcap file or specially crafted network traffic could cause tcpdump to write out of bounds in the BSS segment, potentially causing tcpdump to display truncated or incorrectly decoded fields or crash with a segmentation violation. This does not affect tcpdump when used with the -w option to save a pcap file.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')