debian · CVE-2018-16301

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:30:09 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-16301 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (tcpdump), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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.

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