CVE-2018-14470
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14470
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-14470.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-14470
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2019-10-03T16:15:12Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-15T09:21:06.656673Z
- Severity
-
- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
The Babel parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-babel.c:babelprintv2().
- References
-
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/12f66f69f7bf1ec1266ddbee90a7616cbf33696b
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00015.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/28
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200120-0001/
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4547
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/
Affected packages
Git / github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
tcpdump-3.*
tcpdump-3.5.1
tcpdump-3.6.1
tcpdump-3.7.1
tcpdump-3.8-bp
tcpdump-4.*
tcpdump-4.5.0
tcpdump-4.6.0
tcpdump-4.6.0-bp
tcpdump-4.7.0-bp
tcpdump-4.9.0
tcpdump-4.9.0-bp
tcpdump-4.9.1
tcpdump-4.9.2
Database specific
vanir_signatures
[
{
"digest": {
"threshold": 0.9,
"line_hashes": [
"228961999194075366117730712716627763968",
"269513262105354279523744202036942919867",
"229899928433238002159102605941620417611",
"130635995648232710229224153835253360771"
]
},
"deprecated": false,
"signature_type": "Line",
"signature_version": "v1",
"id": "CVE-2018-14470-57dad423",
"source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/12f66f69f7bf1ec1266ddbee90a7616cbf33696b",
"target": {
"file": "print-babel.c"
}
},
{
"digest": {
"function_hash": "338332873177591170510505156836057748014",
"length": 9086.0
},
"deprecated": false,
"signature_type": "Function",
"signature_version": "v1",
"id": "CVE-2018-14470-af905808",
"source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/12f66f69f7bf1ec1266ddbee90a7616cbf33696b",
"target": {
"function": "babel_print_v2",
"file": "print-babel.c"
}
}
]