Critical
Security advisory
The DECnet parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-decnet.c:decnet_print().
- Products
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- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-12899
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:00 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The DECnet parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-decnet.c:decnet_print().
osv:CVE-2017-12899
Complete source record
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