UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16301

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16301

    Published: 30 Sept 2019Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-16301

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16301, http://www.tcpdump.org/public-cve-list.txt, https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5331-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5331-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16301

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: tcpdump

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.4.0-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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