Critical
Security advisory
The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-bgp.c:decode_multicast_vpn().
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-13043
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-bgp.c:decode_multicast_vpn().
osv:CVE-2017-13043
Complete source record
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