CVE-2017-12987

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12987
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12987.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12987
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (1)
RHEA (1)
SUSE (2)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (2)
Published
2017-09-14T06:29:00Z
Modified
2026-10-24T14:09:02Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The IEEE 802.11 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-802_11.c:parse_elements().

Database specific 
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References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
993a67c8e648bc8b19881e29a60f41273cfbee7b
Fixed
2ecb9d2c67d9119250c54811a6ce4d0f2ddf44f1
Fixed
99798bd9a41bd3d03fdc1e949810a38967f20ed3
Database specific
Show details 
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Affected versions

tcpdump-3.*
tcpdump-3.5.1
tcpdump-3.6.1
tcpdump-3.7.1
tcpdump-3.8-bp
tcpdump-4.*
tcpdump-4.5.0
tcpdump-4.6.0
tcpdump-4.6.0-bp
tcpdump-4.7.0-bp
tcpdump-4.9.0
tcpdump-4.9.0-bp
tcpdump-4.9.1

Database specific

source 
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vanir_signatures_modified 
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