CVSS 3.1
7.0 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2018-14879
The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer overflow in tcpdump.c:get_next_file().
Severity
- EPSS
- 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-120
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apple:mac_os_x
- debian:debian_linux
- f5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controller
- fedoraproject:fedora
- opensuse:leap
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- tcpdump:tcpdump
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/9ba91381954ad325ea4fd26b9c65a8bd9a2a85b6