$ cve CVE-2016-7983 JSON

CVE-2016-7983

9.8

CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 3.9% (pctl 90)

In your normal cycle

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

The BOOTP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-bootp.c:bootp_print().

CVSS	9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0)
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS	3.94% — more likely to be exploited than 90% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-119
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	none known
Published	2017-01-28
Last modified	2026-06-17

Vendor	Product
tcpdump	tcpdump