cvelist/2018/16xxx/CVE-2018-16301.json

{
    "data_type": "CVE",
    "data_format": "MITRE",
    "data_version": "4.0",
    "CVE_data_meta": {
        "ID": "CVE-2018-16301",
        "ASSIGNER": "security@tcpdump.org",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
    },
    "description": {
        "description_data": [
            {
                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "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."
            }
        ]
    },
    "problemtype": {
        "problemtype_data": [
            {
                "description": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "CWE-190 integer overflow or wraparound"
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "description": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "CWE-787 out-of-bounds write"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "affects": {
        "vendor": {
            "vendor_data": [
                {
                    "vendor_name": "The Tcpdump Group",
                    "product": {
                        "product_data": [
                            {
                                "product_name": "tcpdump",
                                "version": {
                                    "version_data": [
                                        {
                                            "version_affected": "<",
                                            "version_value": "4.99.0"
                                        }
                                    ]
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    "credit": [
        {
            "lang": "eng",
            "value": "Include Security and Mozilla Secure Open Source program"
        }
    ],
    "references": {
        "reference_data": [
            {
                "url": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd",
                "refsource": "CONFIRM",
                "name": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/ad7c25bc0decf96dc7768c9e903734d38528b1bd"
            }
        ]
    }
}