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CVE-2017-12894

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 2.53% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-09-14 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2017-12894
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
2.53%

Original NVD Description

Several protocol parsers in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could cause a buffer over-read in addrtoname.c:lookup_bytestring().