CVE-2018-14470

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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
2019-10-03T16:15:12.070Z
Modified
2026-04-16T00:05:25.889767081Z
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().

Database specific 
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}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
d9a693b043262f1999ee7aba28acadfd0f77cc38
Fixed
12f66f69f7bf1ec1266ddbee90a7616cbf33696b
Database specific 
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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

source 
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vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-04-11T19:05:47Z"
vanir_signatures 
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