Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 14, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-12995
CVE-2017-12995
Description
The DNS parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could enter an infinite loop due to a bug in print-domain.c:ns_print().
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
7- github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/3a76fd7c95fced2c2f8c8148a9055c3a542eff29nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump-changes.txtnvdVendor Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3971nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1039307nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0705nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-23nvd
- support.apple.com/HT208221nvd
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