CVE-2017-12894 log

Source
Severity Medium
Remote Yes
Type Denial of service
Description
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump's parsers when calling lookup_bytestring 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.
Group Package Affected Fixed Severity Status Ticket
AVG-361 tcpdump 4.9.1-1 4.9.2-1 Critical Fixed
Date Advisory Group Package Severity Type
13 Sep 2017 ASA-201709-5 AVG-361 tcpdump Critical multiple issues
References
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/730fc35968c5433b9e2a829779057f4f9495dc51