CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12995

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-09-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125, CWE-835

Description

The DNS parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could enter an infinite loop due to a bug in print-domain.c:ns_print().

Affected configurations

• tcpdump tcpdump (<= 4.9.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References