CVE-2018-14879
HIGH 7.0EPSS 4.7%
The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer overflow in tcpdump.c:get_next_file().
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 7.0 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 5.1 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 4.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 92nd percentile
- Published
- 2019-10-03
- Updated
- 2025-12-03
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- Trinadh465/external_tcpdump_CVE-2018-148790★ · 2023-09-13
Security advisories
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
- the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00015.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/28
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4547
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2