CVE-2018-14879

HIGH

tcpdump <4.9.3 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm

Description

The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer overflow in tcpdump.c:get_next_file().

Exploits (1)

nomisec WRITEUP

by Trinadh465 · poc

https://github.com/Trinadh465/external_tcpdump_CVE-2018-14879

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (17)

[Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26

[Release Notes, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/9ba91381954ad325ea4fd26b9c65a8bd9a2a85b6

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00015.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/28

[Third Party Advisory] https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788

[Vendor Advisory] https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K51512510?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS

[Vendor Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/

[Vendor Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4547

[Vendor Advisory] https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200120-0001/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0

EPSS 0.0052

EPSS Percentile 66.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-120

Status published

Affected Products (13)

f5/traffix_signaling_delivery_controller < 5.1.0

tcpdump/tcpdump < 4.9.3

apple/mac_os_x < 10.15.2

debian/debian_linux

fedoraproject/fedora

opensuse/leap

redhat/enterprise_linux

Timeline

Published Oct 03, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026