CVE-2018-16301Published

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 va…

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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 published: 3 Oct 2019 15:55:20 UTC
Source modified: 8 Oct 2026 21:13:46 UTC
Observed here: 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC
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