CVE-2017-13038
- 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
- 2026-07-08T11:35:16.375346Z
- 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
-
- https://support.apple.com/HT208221
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3971
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039307
- 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/7335163a6ef82d46ff18f3e6099a157747241629
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
{ "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "4.9.1" } ], "source": [ "CPE_RANGE", "REFERENCES" ] }
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
"2026-07-08T11:35:16Z"
vanir_signatures
[
{
"signature_type": "Function",
"deprecated": false,
"digest": {
"length": 309.0,
"function_hash": "104475510614543381647945374694756825848"
},
"signature_version": "v1",
"source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/7335163a6ef82d46ff18f3e6099a157747241629",
"id": "CVE-2017-13038-644b08e3",
"target": {
"function": "handle_mlppp",
"file": "print-ppp.c"
}
},
{
"signature_type": "Line",
"deprecated": false,
"digest": {
"threshold": 0.9,
"line_hashes": [
"207321312831272802920847581388257873641",
"113784297248733078625081073952188932860",
"125372704519316314067301538403105121868"
]
},
"signature_version": "v1",
"source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/7335163a6ef82d46ff18f3e6099a157747241629",
"id": "CVE-2017-13038-ce0f6166",
"target": {
"file": "print-ppp.c"
}
}
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-13038.json"