CVE-2018-16301 | BDVDB-2026-123788 Detail

The Tcpdump Grouptcpdump

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References#

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12019-10-03Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22026-10-08Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.