CVE-2018-16300 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Tcpdump

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled RecursionCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption9 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 48.54%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
TcpdumpDebian TcpdumpApple Macos Catalina 10.15.2 Security Update 2019-002 Mojave Security Update 2019-007
Timeline
PublishedOct 3
Latest updateMay 24

Description

The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 allows stack consumption in print-bgp.c:bgp_attr_print() because of unlimited recursion.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/tcpdump< tcpdump 4.9.3-1 (bookworm)
▶NVDtcpdump/tcpdump< 4.9.3
▶Debiantcpdump/tcpdump< 4.9.3-1+3

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-3jcc-vp6f-3wj7: The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2018-16300: The BGP 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-2018-16300: 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: Resource exhaustion in bgp_attr_print() function in print-bgp.c↗2019-10-02
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Debian
CVE-2018-16300: tcpdump - The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 allows stack consumption in print-bgp.c:b...↗2018
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16300 tcpdump: Resource exhaustion in bgp_attr_print() function in print-bgp.c↗2019-10-10
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