Vulnerability Details CVE-2018-16301
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 17.8%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 4.4
References
Products affected by CVE-2018-16301
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.6.3
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.8.3
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.9.2
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.9.3
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.9.5
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.9.6
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.9.7
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:3.9.8
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.7.4
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.9.2
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cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:4.9.3