CVE-2017-5204

high-risk
Published 2017-01-28

The IPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-ip6.c:ip6_print().

Do I need to act?

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2.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Fix available
Upgrade to: cae54f4d943f163541dc7a90f7f5b432859955e4
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (12)

Affected Vendors

Debian Tcpdump Redhat

References (12)

Third Party Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3775
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95852
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037755
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1871
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-30
https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg1494526.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3775
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95852
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037755
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1871
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-30
https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg1494526.html
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 6/34 · Minimal
Exposure 17/34 · Moderate