CVE-2018-14879

CWE-120 — Classic Buffer OverflowCWE-119 — Buffer Overflow12 documents10 sources
Severity
7.0HIGH
EPSS
0.5%
top 33.19%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
7
Apple MAC OS XTcpdump TcpdumpF5 Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller+4 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 3
Latest updateMay 24

Description

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

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶NVDtcpdump/tcpdump< 4.9.3
▶Debiantcpdump< 4.9.3-1+3
▶NVDapple/mac_os_x< 10.15.2
▶NVDopensuse/leap15.0, 15.1+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 8.0, 9.0, Fedora 29, 30, 31, Enterprise Linux 7.0, 8.0

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-x5g3-55pg-9g4m: The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2018-14879: The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4↗2019-10-03
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OSV
CVE-2018-14879: The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4↗2019-10-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
tcpdump vulnerabilities↗2020-01-27
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Ubuntu
tcpdump vulnerabilities↗2020-01-27
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Apple
CVE-2018-14879: macOS Catalina 10.15.2, Security Update 2019-002 Mojave, Security Update 2019-007 High Sierra↗2019-12-10
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Red Hat
tcpdump: Out of bounds read/write in in get_next_file() in tcpdump.c↗2019-10-02
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Debian
CVE-2018-14879: tcpdump - The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer overflow i...↗2018
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💬Community

3
HackerOne
tcpdump: CVE-2018-14879 - buffer overflow in tcpdump.c:get_next_file()↗2020-02-13
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-10105 CVE-2018-14461 CVE-2018-14462 CVE-2018-14463 CVE-2018-14464 CVE-2018-14465 CVE-2018-14466 CVE-2018-14467 CVE-2018-14468 CVE-2018-14469 CVE-2018-14470 CVE-2018-14879 CVE-2018-14880 CVE-2↗2019-10-11
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-14879 tcpdump: Out of bounds read/write in in get_next_file() in tcpdump.c↗2019-10-10
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