CVE-2018-14879

high

Description

The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer overflow in tcpdump.c:get_next_file().

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4547

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K51512510?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200120-0001/

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/28

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00015.html

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/9ba91381954ad325ea4fd26b9c65a8bd9a2a85b6

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-10-03

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High