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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 3, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-16301

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.

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