Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-13687  

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump's handling of Cisco HDLC 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 Cisco HDLC 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/866c60236c41cea1e1654c8a071897292f64be49
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/a1eefe986065846b6c69dbc09afd9fa1a02c4a3d