CVE-2018-14879

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14879
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-14879.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-14879
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-10-03T16:15:12.133Z
Modified
2025-11-14T07:50:40.130256Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer overflow in tcpdump.c:getnextfile().

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
9ba91381954ad325ea4fd26b9c65a8bd9a2a85b6

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

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        "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/9ba91381954ad325ea4fd26b9c65a8bd9a2a85b6",
        "target": {
            "file": "tcpdump.c",
            "function": "get_next_file"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2018-14879-6234411b",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "signature_version": "v1"
    },
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            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/9ba91381954ad325ea4fd26b9c65a8bd9a2a85b6",
        "target": {
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        },
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    }
]