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Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-7928: ELSA-2017-1871: tcpdump security, bug fix, and enhancement update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-7928: ELSA-2017-1871: tcpdump security, bug fix, and enhancement update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/02/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/08/2017
Modified
08/06/2024

Description

The IPComp parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-ipcomp.c:ipcomp_print().

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tcpdump

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