Tcpdump: >> Tcpdump >> 4.9.3 Security Vulnerabilities
The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2020-11-04
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 Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2019-10-03