CVE-2018-16230

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16230
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16230.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16230
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-10-03T16:15:12Z
Modified
2025-10-15T09:22:29.098124Z
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 BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-bgp.c:bgpattrprint() (MPREACHNLRI).

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

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

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        {
            "signature_type": "Line",
            "target": {
                "file": "print-bgp.c"
            },
            "id": "CVE-2018-16230-9a647579",
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                    "68137003183946825795492788143261705615",
                    "58680085693386469582686586650184230683",
                    "223256828386320241404011162594707821961"
                ]
            },
            "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/13d52e9c0e7caf7e6325b0051bc90a49968be67f",
            "deprecated": false,
            "signature_version": "v1"
        },
        {
            "signature_type": "Function",
            "target": {
                "file": "print-bgp.c",
                "function": "bgp_attr_print"
            },
            "id": "CVE-2018-16230-b1fb06eb",
            "digest": {
                "length": 25664.0,
                "function_hash": "23036371250531912478826578935667230610"
            },
            "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/13d52e9c0e7caf7e6325b0051bc90a49968be67f",
            "deprecated": false,
            "signature_version": "v1"
        }
    ]
}