Unrated
CVE-2018-16301
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.
Announced Source revision 1
Original source ↗CVE-2018-16301
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2018-16301
tcpdump
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "The Tcpdump Group",
"product": "tcpdump",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "unspecified",
"lessThan": "4.99.0",
"versionType": "custom"
}
]
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2018-16301
Source reference:
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Publisher severity
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- Event
- #15931 · Revision 1
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- Publisher date