Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-16808

Title: Tcpdump Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-16808.

CWE Category CWE-125

Published Date Nov 13, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.17%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-16808: 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.

Impacted Vendors

lbl 1

redhat 1

tcpdump 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00065.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154710/Slackware-Security-Advisory-tcpdump-Updates.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039773 https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/645 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/ https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23 https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/2 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/ http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00065.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154710/Slackware-Security-Advisory-tcpdump-Updates.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039773 https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/645 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/ https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23 https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/2 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns