CVE-2016-7927: Tcpdump

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The IEEE 802.11 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-802_11.c:ieee802_11_radio_print().

Affected products

  • Tcpdump Tcpdump: up to and including 4.8.1

Published 2017-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.