CVE-2018-16301
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16301
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16301.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16301
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2019-10-03T16:15:12.693Z
- Modified
- 2026-05-18T15:06:09.322114Z
- 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
- [none]
- 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
Git / github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedFixed
- Database specific
{ "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "source": [ "CPE_FIELD", "REFERENCES" ], "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "4.99.0" } ] }