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cvelistTcpdumpCVELIST:CVE-2018-16301
HistoryOct 03, 2019 - 3:55 p.m.

CVE-2018-16301

2019-10-0315:55:20
CWE-190
CWE-787
Tcpdump
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3

7.6 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

40.8%

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.