CVE-2017-12994 - log back

CVE-2017-12994 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 BGP 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/ffde45acf3348f8353fb4064a1b21683ee6b5ddf
Notes