CVE-2018-16301

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Publication date:
03/10/2019
Last modified:
07/11/2023

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.99.0 (excluding)