CVE-2018-16227

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16227
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16227.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16227
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-10-03T16:15:12Z
Modified
2025-10-10T01:19:12.740458Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The IEEE 802.11 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-802_11.c for the Mesh Flags subfield.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

tcpdump-3.*

tcpdump-3.5.1
tcpdump-3.6.1
tcpdump-3.7.1
tcpdump-3.8-bp

tcpdump-4.*

tcpdump-4.5.0
tcpdump-4.6.0
tcpdump-4.6.0-bp
tcpdump-4.7.0-bp
tcpdump-4.9.0
tcpdump-4.9.0-bp
tcpdump-4.9.1
tcpdump-4.9.2

Database specific

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        {
            "digest": {
                "line_hashes": [
                    "260527178887615291491279372569759969730",
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                    "298240062526909483142364042161448577666",
                    "305938225022394359354304285237942418298"
                ],
                "threshold": 0.9
            },
            "target": {
                "file": "print-802_11.c"
            },
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "signature_type": "Line",
            "id": "CVE-2018-16227-5a3d1b75",
            "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/4846b3c5d0a850e860baf4f07340495d29837d09",
            "deprecated": false
        },
        {
            "digest": {
                "length": 1902.0,
                "function_hash": "281617910124428780885835396301876821598"
            },
            "target": {
                "function": "ieee802_11_print",
                "file": "print-802_11.c"
            },
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "signature_type": "Function",
            "id": "CVE-2018-16227-d32da9f1",
            "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/4846b3c5d0a850e860baf4f07340495d29837d09",
            "deprecated": false
        }
    ]
}