| Name | CVE-2018-16301 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| tcpdump (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.9.3-1~deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 4.9.3-1~deb9u2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 4.9.3-1~deb10u2 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster (lts) | 4.9.3-1~deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 4.99.0-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4.99.3-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.99.5-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| tcpdump | source | (unstable) | 4.99.0-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/issues/855
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd
https://www.tcpdump.org/public-cve-list.txt
Fixed by: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/faf8fb70af3a013e5d662b8283dec742fd6b1a77 (tcpdump-4.99-bp)
Fixed by: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/8ab211a7ec728bb0ad8c766c8eeb12deb0a13b86 (tcpdump-4.9)
Negligible security impact