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CVE-2018-16301

The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.99.0 has a buffer overflow in tcpdump.c:read_infile(). To trigger t

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.

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.00064
Schedule remediation
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

Affected Products & Versions

1
tcpdump< 4.99.0

Scoring & Timeline

7.8
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · security@tcpdump.org
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD03 Oct 2019 · 04:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vendor Advisories

18
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10969-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:11425-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2022:0774-1
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References & Sources

1
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