CVE-2016-7939

9.8 criticalEPSS 3.5%

Critical (9.8) in tcpdump tcpdump. EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The GRE parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-gre.c, multiple functions.

Severity

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2017-01-28
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19