CVE-2017-5342

9.8 criticalEPSS 5.5%

In tcpdump before 4.9.0, a bug in multiple protocol parsers (Geneve, GRE, NSH, OTV, VXLAN and VXLAN GPE) could cause a buffer overflow in print-ether.c:ether_print().

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% 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

Affected

tcpdump:tcpdump

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3775
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95852
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037755
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1871
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-30

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