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Published CVEs affecting Tcpdump products: 1 record(s), with severity, exploitation and fixes.

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CVE-2018-16301 High · 7.8 CWE-120 Oct 3, 2019
Classic Buffer Overflow in Tcpdump
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.