Security advisory

{
  "id": "747ae1dce9b0f7f6e40e0680d29f862984fd56de12ae117c3905904084313fa5",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7992",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-7992",
    "summary": "The Classical IP over ATM parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-cip.c:cip_if_print().",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-7992",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-7992",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-7992"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "af974494da71f2dae8eeac40e1611db5d6a82668"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.8.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "tcpdump-4.8.1",
            "tcpdump-4.8.0-bp",
            "tcpdump-4.7.0-bp",
            "tcpdump-4.6.0-bp",
            "tcpdump-4.6.0",
            "tcpdump-4.5.0",
            "tcpdump-3.8-bp",
            "tcpdump-3.7.1",
            "tcpdump-3.6.1",
            "tcpdump-3.5.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7992.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:56.975735482Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg1494526.html",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1871",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-30"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "tcpdump:tcpdump",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "last_affected": "4.8.1"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-7992",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438761,
  "published_at": "2017-01-28T01:59:00.937+00:00"
}