Critical
Security advisory
The VQP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-vqp.c:vqp_print().
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-13045
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:00 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The VQP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-vqp.c:vqp_print().
osv:CVE-2017-13045
Complete source record
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