msrc_cve-2018-16301
Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft
Published
2019-10-02 00:00
Modified
2022-02-15 00:00
Summary
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.
Notes
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