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DEBIAN-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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 tcpdump

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.99.0-1"}]}]

Debian:13 tcpdump

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.99.0-1"}]}]

Debian:14 tcpdump

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.99.0-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org