CVE-2018-16301
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16301
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16301.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16301
- Downstream
ALPINE (1)
AZL (1)
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
OESA (2)
openSUSE (7)
SUSE (8)
- Related
- Published
- 2019-10-03T16:15:12Z
- Modified
- 2026-10-20T10:49:51Z
- Severity
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- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- Database specific
{ "unresolved_ranges": [ { "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "extracted_events": [ { "range": [ { "fixed": "4.99.0" } ], "source": "CPE_RANGE" } ], "vendor_product": "tcpdump:tcpdump" } ] }- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedFixed
- Database specific
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Show details
{ "extracted_events": [ { "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "range": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "4.99.0" } ], "source": "CPE_RANGE" }, { "range": [ { "fixed": "ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd" } ], "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT" } ] }