CVE-2018-14879

HIGH

7.0

Description

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

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.0

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityHIGH

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published10/3/2019

Last Modified12/3/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

apple:mac_os_xdebian:debian_linuxf5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controllerfedoraproject:fedoraopensuse:leapredhat:enterprise_linuxtcpdump:tcpdump

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-120CWE-120

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/9ba91381954ad325ea4fd26b9c65a8bd9a2a85b6(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00015.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/(cve@mitre.org)

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23(cve@mitre.org)

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/28(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200120-0001/(cve@mitre.org)

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788(cve@mitre.org)

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K51512510?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS(cve@mitre.org)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/(cve@mitre.org)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4547(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/9ba91381954ad325ea4fd26b9c65a8bd9a2a85b6(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00015.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/28(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200120-0001/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K51512510?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4547(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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