CVE-2017-12994

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions tcpdump versions prior to 4.9.2

Description The issue concerns a buffer over-read in the BGP parser, specifically within the bgp attr print() function in print-bgp.c. This problem affects the tcpdump tool.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.9.2, update to version 4.9.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the BGP parser until a patch is available.