Security advisory

{
  "id": "09a73dcdef1f0445b8d50006321f9bacc1bacabf1a8980ed2cf0f189a5e6a570",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16301",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-16301",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-16301",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-16301",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-16301"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "f736ac0bc2009892b73e06d63eacbda6849deeee"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "4.99.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "tcpdump-4.9.0-bp",
            "tcpdump-4.7.0-bp",
            "tcpdump-4.6.0-bp",
            "tcpdump-4.6.0",
            "tcpdump-4.5.0",
            "tcpdump-3.8-bp",
            "tcpdump-3.7.1",
            "tcpdump-3.6.1",
            "tcpdump-3.5.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16301.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:47:37.858773591Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "tcpdump:tcpdump",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "fixed": "4.99.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-16301",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 441420,
  "published_at": "2019-10-03T16:15:12.693+00:00"
}