CVE-2007-1218: Tcpdump

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one buffer overflow in the parse_elements function in the 802.11 printer code (print-802_11.c) for tcpdump 3.9.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted 802.11 frame. NOTE: this was originally referred to as heap-based, but it might be stack-based.

Affected products

• Tcpdump Tcpdump: up to and including 3.9.5

Published 2007-03-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.