CVE-2017-12989
N/A
Published: September 14, 2017 at 06:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:04 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorTcpdump
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
The RESP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could enter an infinite loop due to a bug in print-resp.c:resp_get_length().
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (7)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3971x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump-changes.txtVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0705x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/db24063b01cba8e9d4d88b7d8ac70c9000c104e4Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-23Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-835
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