Tcpdump SNMP Parser Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Tcpdump is a popular network analysis program. Tcpdump SNMP parser print-snmp.c:asn1parse suffers from a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability by submitting a special request to crash the application...

CVE-2017-5483

tcpdump is vulnerable to CVE-2017-5483: a buffer overflow in the SNMP parser (print-snmp.c:asn1_parse()) could allow remote code execution. Affected: tcpdump before 4.9.0. Remediation: upgrade to tcpdump 4.9.0 or later (as noted in multiple advisories; upgrade is the advised fix).