CVE-2018-16301 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Tcpdump Group Tcpdump
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 80.17%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 3
Latest updateMay 24
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages4 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
5📋Vendor Advisories
6Apple▶
CVE-2018-16301: macOS Catalina 10.15.2, Security Update 2019-002 Mojave, Security Update 2019-007 High Sierra↗2019-12-10
Microsoft▶
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 filesyste↗2019-10-08