CVE-2016-7925

Critical

Published: 28/01/2017(UTC)Translated: 14/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

The compressed SLIP parser in tcpdump before version 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in the sl_if_print() function in print-sl.c.

Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to arbitrary code execution or application crashes, posing a threat to system integrity.

It is recommended to upgrade tcpdump to version 4.9.0 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

The compressed SLIP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-sl.c:sl_if_print().