Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2007-3798
Integer overflow in print-bgp.c in the BGP dissector in tcpdump 3.9.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted TLVs in a BGP packet, related to an unchecked return value.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.704 (99.4th percentile), scored .
High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 99th percentile — 99.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.704 · newest: 0.704 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X
- Apple Mac OS X Server
- FreeBSD — versions 5.5, 6.1, 6.2
- Slackware — versions 9.0, 9.1, 10.0
- Tcpdump
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 6.06, 6.10, 7.04
- Debian Linux — versions 3.1, 4.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0387.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/26231 (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_16_sr.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238 (vdb-entry, Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/26168 (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/27580 (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28136 (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/26286 (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/private/tcpdump-bgp.c (Exploit)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2007-3798?
- CVE-2007-3798 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X, classified under CWE-252. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2007-07-16.
- How severe is CVE-2007-3798?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.