CVE-2018-16301

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Oct 8, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-190 CWE-787 CWE-120

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Oct 3, 2019
Last modified: Oct 8, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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