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CVE-2018-16301

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.63% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2019-10-03 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links

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CVE
CVE-2018-16301
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.63%

Original NVD 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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