CVE-2017-16808: Medium severity apple macOS Catalina vulnerability

Published Nov 13, 2017
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Updated

Last updated 24 July 2024

Other sources

tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read related to aoeprint in print-aoe.c and lookupemem in addrtoname.c.

tcpdump. Multiple issues were addressed by updating to tcpdump version 4.9.3 and libpcap version 1.9.1

Credit

CVE-2017-16808, CVE-2018-10103, CVE-2018-10105, CVE-2018-14461, CVE-2018-14462, CVE-2018-14463, CVE-2018-14464, CVE-2018-14465, CVE-2018-14466, CVE-2018-14467, CVE-2018-14468, CVE-2018-14469, CVE-2018-14470, CVE-2018-14879, CVE-2018-14880, CVE-2018-14881, CVE-2018-14882, CVE-2018-16227, CVE-2018-16228, CVE-2018-16229, CVE-2018-16230, CVE-2018-16300, CVE-2018-16301, CVE-2018-16451, CVE-2018-16452, CVE-2019-15166, CVE-2019-15167

Affected Software

5 affected componentsFixes available
debian/tcpdump
4.99.0-2+deb11u14.99.3-14.99.5-1
apple macOS Catalina<10.15.2
10.15.2
apple Mojave
apple High Sierra
tcpdump tcpdump=4.9.2

Event History

Nov 13, 2017
CVE Published
via MITRE·09:00 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·09:00 PM
Description
Jan 11, 2024
Data Sourced
via Launchpad·10:32 PM
Description
Sep 16, 2024
Data Sourced
via Ubuntu·01:44 AM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityAffected Software

Parent advisories

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