CVE-2017-13017: Tcpdump

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

The DHCPv6 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-dhcp6.c:dhcp6opt_print().

Affected products

  • Tcpdump Tcpdump: up to and including 4.9.1

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