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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-13016

The ISO ES-IS parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-isoclns.c:esis_print().

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CVE-2017-13016
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1 Nov 2026, 09:07 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2017-13016

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 Sept 2017, 06:29 UTC

The ISO ES-IS parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-isoclns.c:esis_print().

osv:CVE-2017-13016
Complete source record
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