CVE-2017-12893: Tcpdump

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SMB/CIFS parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in smbutil.c:name_len().

Affected products

• Tcpdump Tcpdump: up to and including 4.9.1

Published 2017-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.