CVE-2016-7926

Critical

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

Summary

The Ethernet parser in tcpdump before version 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-ether.c:ethertype_print().

Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to unauthorized access to the system or application crashes, posing a threat to data integrity.

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

Original NVD description (English source)

The Ethernet parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-ether.c:ethertype_print().