High
Security advisory
The Babel parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-babel.c:babel_print_v2().
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-14470
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Babel parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-babel.c:babel_print_v2().
osv:CVE-2018-14470
Complete source record
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