CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2018-16227
The IEEE 802.11 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-802_11.c for the Mesh Flags subfield.
Severity
- EPSS
- 6.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-125
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apple:mac_os_x
- debian:debian_linux
- 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/4846b3c5d0a850e860baf4f07340495d29837d09