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OS X update for tcpdump (CVE-2017-16808)

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OS X update for tcpdump (CVE-2017-16808)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/13/2017
Created
12/12/2019
Added
12/11/2019
Modified
03/18/2020

Description

tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read related to aoe_print in print-aoe.c and lookup_emem in addrtoname.c.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-security-update-2019-002-mojave
  • apple-osx-security-update-2019-007-high-sierra
  • apple-osx-upgrade-10_15_2

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