Medium
Security advisory
In tcpdump 4.9.2, a stack-based buffer over-read exists in the print_prefix function of print-hncp.c via crafted packet data because of missing initialization.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-19519
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In tcpdump 4.9.2, a stack-based buffer over-read exists in the print_prefix function of print-hncp.c via crafted packet data because of missing initialization.
osv:CVE-2018-19519
Complete source record
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"references": [
"https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44516",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3976",
"https://github.com/zyingp/temp/blob/master/tcpdump.md"
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