CVE-2016-7924

critical
Published 2017-01-28 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

Description

The ATM parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-atm.c:oam_print().

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7924

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7924.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201702-1

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
arch archfixed4.9.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed4.9.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.9.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.9.0-1
debian debiansidfixed4.9.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.9.0-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
tcpdumptcpdump{"endIncluding":"4.8.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.