CVE-2018-16301
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.06%Published: 10/3/2019Modified: 4/28/2026
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 packages (3)
- Alpine/libpcapfrom 0, < 1.1.1-r0
- Alpine/tcpdumpfrom 0, < 4.9.3-r0
- Debian/tcpdumpfrom 0, < 4.99.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |