CVE-2018-16301
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.6%
exploitation probability
0.6%top 52% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
The Tcpdump Group · tcpdump