CVE-2017-12995

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CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

EPSS

2%p83

Published

Sep 14, 2017 (Sep 14, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The DNS parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could enter an infinite loop due to a bug in print-domain.c:ns_print().

Vendors: tcpdump
Products: tcpdump
Weakness: CWE-835, CWE-125
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (2.4%)

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