CVE-2017-13018

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13018
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-13018.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-13018
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (1)
RHEA (1)
SUSE (2)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (2)
Published
2017-09-14T06:29:01Z
Modified
2026-10-24T14:09:07Z
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 PGM parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-pgm.c:pgm_print().

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "range": [
                        {
                            "last_affected": "4.9.1"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "tcpdump:tcpdump"
        }
    ]
}
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
26a6799b9ca80508c05cac7a9a3bef922991520b
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.9.1"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "26a6799b9ca80508c05cac7a9a3bef922991520b"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

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-2017-13018.json"
vanir_signatures 
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        },
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        "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/26a6799b9ca80508c05cac7a9a3bef922991520b",
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        "target": {
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        }
    }
]
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-10-24T14:09:07Z"