Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-7985

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The CALM FAST parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-calm-fast.c:calmfastprint. CVE-2016-7985 Note that Nessus relies on the presence of...

Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2017-041-04)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Photon OS 1.0: Tcpdump PHSA-2017-0004 (deprecated)

An update of tcpdump packages for PhotonOS has been released. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. @DEPRECATED@ Disabled on 2/7/2019 The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2017-0004. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc...

EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : tcpdump (EulerOS-SA-2017-1179)

According to the versions of the tcpdump package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Multiple out of bounds read and integer overflow vulnerabilities were found in tcpdump affecting the decoding of various protocols. An attacker...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : tcpdump (EulerOS-SA-2017-1180)

According to the versions of the tcpdump package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Multiple out of bounds read and integer overflow vulnerabilities were found in tcpdump affecting the decoding of various protocols. An attacker...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tcpdump on SL7.x x86_64 (20170801)

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: tcpdump 4.9.0. Security Fixes : - Multiple out of bounds read and integer overflow vulnerabilities were found in tcpdump affecting the decoding of various protocols. An attacker could create a crafted pcap file or send special...

RedHat Update for tcpdump RHSA-2017:1871-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2016-7985

The CVE-2016-7985 entry concerns tcpdump’s CALM FAST parser. It specifies a buffer overflow in print-calm-fast.c:calm_fast_print() in tcpdump before 4.9.0. Public documents identify upstream fixes upgrading tcpdump to 4.9.0 as the remediation.

CVE-2016-7985

The CALM FAST parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-calm-fast.c:calmfastprint...