Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-12902  

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump's handling of Zephyr in tcpdump <= 4.9.1. An attacker could craft a malicious pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network that would cause tcpdump to crash while processing the packet data.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump's handling of Zephyr in tcpdump <= 4.9.1. An attacker could craft a malicious pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network that would cause tcpdump to crash while processing the packet data.

AVG-361 tcpdump 4.9.1-1 4.9.2-1 Critical Fixed

13 Sep 2017 ASA-201709-5 AVG-361 tcpdump Critical multiple issues

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/6ec0c6fa63412c7a07a5bcb790a529c3563b4173
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/d17507ffa3e9742199b02a66aa940e79ababfa30