CVE-2017-12988 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The telnet parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-telnet.c:telnet_parse().

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01117.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Redhat	Enterprise Linux
Tcpdump	Tcpdump

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
tcpdump-14:4.9.2-3.el7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7	RHEA-2018:0705	2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

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References

Link	Providers
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://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/8934a7d6307267d301182f19ed162563717e29e3
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12988
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-23
https://support.apple.com/HT208221
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12988

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-14T06:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T18:51:07.384Z

Reserved: 2017-08-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-12988

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-09-14T06:29:00.700

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-12988

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-09-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-12988 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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