CVE-2017-13688 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The OLSR parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-olsr.c:olsr_print().

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00604.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Redhat	Enterprise Linux
Tcpdump	Tcpdump

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
tcpdump-14:4.9.2-3.el7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7	RHEA-2018:0705	2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

No data.

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-1097-1	tcpdump security update
Debian DSA	DSA-3971-1	tcpdump security update
EUVD	EUVD-2017-5205	The OLSR parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-olsr.c:olsr_print().
Ubuntu USN	USN-3415-1	tcpdump vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-3415-2	tcpdump vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3971
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039307
http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump-changes.txt
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0705
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/0cb1b8a434b599b8d636db029aadb757c24e39d6
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13688
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-23
https://support.apple.com/HT208221
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13688

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00604}`	epss `{'score': 0.00607}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-14T06:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:05:19.428Z

Reserved: 2017-08-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-13688

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-09-14T06:29:03.340

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-13688

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-09-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-13688 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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