CVE-2017-13038

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13038
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-13038.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-13038
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-09-14T06:29:02.637Z
Modified
2026-04-11T03:57:01.914489Z
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 PPP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-ppp.c:handle_mlppp().

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
7335163a6ef82d46ff18f3e6099a157747241629
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.9.1"
        }
    ]
}

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

vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-04-11T03:57:01Z"
vanir_signatures 
[
    {
        "target": {
            "file": "print-ppp.c",
            "function": "handle_mlppp"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "length": 309.0,
            "function_hash": "104475510614543381647945374694756825848"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-13038-644b08e3",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/7335163a6ef82d46ff18f3e6099a157747241629"
    },
    {
        "target": {
            "file": "print-ppp.c"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "207321312831272802920847581388257873641",
                "113784297248733078625081073952188932860",
                "125372704519316314067301538403105121868"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-13038-ce0f6166",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/7335163a6ef82d46ff18f3e6099a157747241629"
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-13038.json"