CVE-2017-11541 - log back

CVE-2017-11541 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity
+ Medium
Remote
+ Remote
Type
+ Denial of service
Description
+ A heap-based out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump <= 4.9.1, in the lldp_print function in print-lldp.c, related to util-print.c. An attacker could craft a malicious pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network that would cause tcpdump to crash when attempting to print a summary of the packet data.
References
+ https://github.com/hackerlib/hackerlib-vul/tree/master/tcpdump-vul/heap-buffer-overflow/util-print
+ https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/21d702a136c5c16882e368af7c173df728242280
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