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CVE-2017-12985

9.8 criticalEPSS 3.5%

The IPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-ip6.c:ip6_print().

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/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-125
Published: 2017-09-14
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

tcpdump:tcpdump

References

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