CVE-2018-16301

Summary

CVECVE-2018-16301
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-10-03 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:53:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-120

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Tcpdump Tcpdump All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Add CVE-2018-16301 to CHANGES. [skip ci] · the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump@ad7c25b · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Include Security and Mozilla Secure Open Source program

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 198735 Ubuntu Security Notification for tcpdump Vulnerabilities (USN-5331-2)
  • 500308 Alpine Linux Security Update for libpcap
  • 500686 Alpine Linux Security Update for tcpdump
  • 504075 Alpine Linux Security Update for libpcap
  • 504455 Alpine Linux Security Update for tcpdump
  • 672214 EulerOS Security Update for tcpdump (EulerOS-SA-2022-2638)
  • 751720 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for tcpdump (SUSE-SU-2022:0505-1)
  • 751845 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for tcpdump (SUSE-SU-2022:0774-1)
  • 751849 OpenSUSE Security Update for tcpdump (openSUSE-SU-2022:0774-1)
  • 753429 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for tcpdump (SUSE-SU-2022:14890-1)
  • 900686 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for tcpdump (8504)
  • 901771 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for tcpdump (8506-1)
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