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The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 16, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 3, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Aug 16, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(66th percentile)

Weaknesses

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2018-14879

GHSA ID

GHSA-x5g3-55pg-9g4m

Source code

No known source code

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