CVE-2018-16227

HIGH

Tcpdump < 4.9.3 - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule

Description

The IEEE 802.11 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-802_11.c for the Mesh Flags subfield.

References (16)

[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

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[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/4846b3c5d0a850e860baf4f07340495d29837d09

[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://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 7.5

EPSS 0.0452

EPSS Percentile 89.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-125

Status published

Affected Products (12)

tcpdump/tcpdump < 4.9.3

apple/mac_os_x < 10.15.2

debian/debian_linux

debian/debian_linux

debian/debian_linux

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

opensuse/leap

opensuse/leap

redhat/enterprise_linux

redhat/enterprise_linux

Timeline

Published Oct 03, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026