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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-14467

The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-bgp.c:bgp_capabilities_print() (BGP_CAPCODE_MP).

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CVE-2018-14467
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1 Nov 2026, 09:12 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-14467

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Oct 2019, 16:15 UTC

The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-bgp.c:bgp_capabilities_print() (BGP_CAPCODE_MP).

osv:CVE-2018-14467
Complete source record
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        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/",
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