CVE-2016-7930

Critical

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

Summary

The LLC/SNAP parser in tcpdump before version 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in the llc_print() function in print-llc.c.

Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to remote code execution or application crashes, posing a serious security threat to the system.

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

Original NVD description (English source)

The LLC/SNAP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-llc.c:llc_print().