CVE-2018-16301

HIGH

Tcpdump < 4.99.0 - Integer Overflow

Title source: rule

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 19.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-190 CWE-120 CWE-787
Status published

Affected Products (1)

tcpdump/tcpdump < 4.99.0

Timeline

Published Oct 03, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026