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CVE-2016-7938

9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 3.1% (pctl 87)

In your normal cycle

Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.

Description

The ZeroMQ parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has an integer overflow in print-zeromq.c:zmtp1_print_frame().

Scoring

CVSS9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0)
VectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS3.08% — more likely to be exploited than 87% of all CVEs
WeaknessCWE-190
On CISA KEVno
Public exploitnone known
Published2017-01-28
Last modified2026-06-17

Affected (1)

VendorProduct
tcpdumptcpdump

References

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