CVE-2018-16301
HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: October 3, 2019 at 03:55 PM UTC
Updated: October 8, 2026 at 10:16 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorTcpdump
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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
No known exploit
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (1)
SSVC — Action Prioritization
SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact
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CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-190CWE-787CWE-120
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