CVE-2018-16301CWE-120CWE-190CWE-787

CVE-2018-16301

High · published October 3, 2019

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
49.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00626 · 49.3th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow'); CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound; CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2019-10-03T20:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
tcpdump/tcpdump< 4.99.04.99.0
References (2)
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd · [email protected]https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 OCT 15:55Z
    The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.99.0 has a buffer overflow in tcpdump.c:read_infile()
    cvelistv5