CVE-2007-3798

CRITICAL

9.8

CVSS Score

Published: July 16, 2007 at 10:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:42 PM UTC

7 products affected across 6 vendorsmacOSDebian LinuxUbuntu Linux

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Severity

CRITICAL9.8

Exploit prediction

EPSS 70%

SSVC

PoC

Description

Integer overflow in print-bgp.c in the BGP dissector in tcpdump 3.9.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted TLVs in a BGP packet, related to an unchecked return value.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Mac OS X Server · Apple

95%

10.0.0 ≤ v < 10.4.11

Affected range stops below 10.4.11, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

macOS · Apple

95%

10.0.0 ≤ v < 10.4.11

Affected range stops below 10.4.11, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Ubuntu Linux · Canonicalrubygems

95%

6.06 6.10 7.04

Debian Linux · Debiandrupal

95%

3.1 4.0

FreeBSD · Freebsd

95%

5.0 ≤ v < 5.56.0 ≤ v < 6.15.5 5.5 p1 5.5 p11 5.5 p12 5.5 p13 5.5 p14 5.5 p2 5.5 p3 5.5 p4 5.5 p5 5.5 p7 5.5 p8 5.5 p9 6.1 6.1 p1 6.1 p10 6.1 p11 6.1 p12 6.1 p13 6.1 p16 6.1 p17 6.1 p18 6.1 p2 6.1 p4 6.1 p6 6.1 p7 6.1 p9 6.2 6.2 p1 6.2 p4 6.2 p5 6.2 p6

Affected range stops below 5.5, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 6.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Slackware · Slackware

95%

10.0 10.1 10.2 11.0 12.0 9.0 9.1

Tcpdump · Tcpdump

95%

v ≤ 3.9.6

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (35)

x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184815

x_refsource_MISCBroken Link

Source: [email protected]

http://cvs.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/tcpdump/print-bgp.c?r1=1.91.2.11&r2=1.91.2.12

x_refsource_CONFIRMBroken Link

Source: [email protected]

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing List

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken LinkVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/26135

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken LinkVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/26168

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken LinkVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/26223

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken LinkVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/26231

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCAutomatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

9.8CRITICALCISA-ADP

Attack Vector: NETWORK
Complexity: LOW
Privileges: NONE
User Interaction: NONE
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality: HIGH
Integrity: HIGH
Availability: HIGH

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-252

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