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FKIE_CVE-2018-16301

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-10-03 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:44

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.99.0 has a buffer overflow in tcpdump.c:read_infile(). To trigger this vulnerability the attacker needs to create a 4GB file on the local filesystem and to specify the file name as the value of the -F command-line argument of tcpdump.

References

	URL	Tags
	security@tcpdump.org	https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	tcpdump	tcpdump	*

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CVE-2018-16301 (GCVE-0-2018-16301)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-10-03 15:55 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:17

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-190 - integer overflow or wraparound
CWE-787 - out-of-bounds write

Assigner

Tcpdump mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/comm…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
The Tcpdump Group	tcpdump	Affected: unspecified , < 4.99.0 (custom)

Credits

Include Security and Mozilla Secure Open Source program

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