CVE-2018-16300

Published: Oct 3, 2019Modified: Dec 3, 2025

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 allows stack consumption in print-bgp.c:bgp_attr_print() because of unlimited recursion.

Affected (1)

Products: Tcpdump: Tcpdump

Tcpdump

1 product

Tcpdump

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Tcpdump Tcpdump	Before 4.9.3

Related CWEs

CWE-674

Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

References (32)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES

Source: cve@mitre.org

Release NotesThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/af2cf04a9394c1a56227c2289ae8da262828294a

Source: cve@mitre.org

PatchThird Party Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00015.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/28

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200120-0001/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4547

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html