DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16301

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16301
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16301.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16301
Upstream
Published
2019-10-03T16:15:12Z
Modified
2025-09-30T03:54:30Z
Severity
  • 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

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.99.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:12 / tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.99.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:13 / tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.99.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:14 / tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.99.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}