CVE-2017-12988
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12988
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12988.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12988
- Downstream
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (1)
RHEA (1)
UBUNTU (1)
- Related
- Published
- 2017-09-14T06:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-08T12:44:18Z
- Severity
-
- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
The telnet parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-telnet.c:telnet_parse().
- References
-
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039307
- https://support.apple.com/HT208221
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3971
- http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump-changes.txt
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0705
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-23
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/8934a7d6307267d301182f19ed162563717e29e3
Affected packages
Git / github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast AffectedFixed
- 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
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12988.json"
vanir_signatures
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vanir_signatures_modified
"2026-07-08T12:44:18Z"