Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12989",
  "method": "structured",
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    "title": "CVE-2017-12989",
    "summary": "The RESP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could enter an infinite loop due to a bug in print-resp.c:resp_get_length().",
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            "tcpdump-4.5.0",
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            "tcpdump-3.7.1",
            "tcpdump-3.6.1",
            "tcpdump-3.5.1"
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T14:09:03.708653114Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://support.apple.com/HT208221",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0705",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-23",
        "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/db24063b01cba8e9d4d88b7d8ac70c9000c104e4"
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            "vendor_product": "tcpdump:tcpdump",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 443143,
  "published_at": "2017-09-14T06:29:00.733+00:00"
}