High
Security advisory
The OSPFv3 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-ospf6.c:ospf6_print_lshdr().
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-14880
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The OSPFv3 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-ospf6.c:ospf6_print_lshdr().
osv:CVE-2018-14880
Complete source record
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