Denial of Service Vulnerability in tcpdump 4.9.0 via Crafted Packet Data

CVE-2017-11108 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

tcpdump 4.9.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via crafted packet data. The crash occurs in the EXTRACT_16BITS function, called from the stp_print function for the Spanning Tree Protocol.

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