Published: 03/10/2019 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.4 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 392

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The command-line argument parser in tcpdump prior to 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.

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Debian Bug report logs - #941697 libpcap: CVE-2018-16301 CVE-2019-15165 Package: src:libpcap; Maintainer for src:libpcap is Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 21:33:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: security, upstream Found in version ...

Several security issues were fixed in tcpdump ...

Full Disclosure mailing list archives   By Date By Thread </form>    APPLE-SA-2019-12-10-3 macOS Catalina 10152, Security Update 2019-002 Mojave, Security Update 2019-007 High Sierra <! ...

CWE-120 https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=941697 https://nvd.nist.gov https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5331-2

CVE-2018-16301

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