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CVE-2017-12899 - log back

CVE-2017-12899 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ Medium
Remote	+ Remote
Type	+ Denial of service
Description	+ An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump's handling of DECnet 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.
References	+ https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/f96003b21e2abfbba59b926b10a7f9bc7d11e36c + https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/c6e0531b5def26ecf912e8de6ade86cbdaed3751
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