Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-8506.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-8506
Upstream
Published
2019-10-03T16:15:12Z
Modified
2026-04-01T05:23:33.139028Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
CVE-2018-16301 affecting package tcpdump for versions less than 4.99.1-1
Details

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

Affected packages

Azure Linux:2 / tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/tcpdump

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.99.1-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-8506.json"