CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-16301

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-10-03 Modified 2026-10-08 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-10-03
Last modified
2026-10-08
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-120, CWE-190, CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• tcpdump tcpdump (< 4.99.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References