{"id":"AZL-8506","summary":"CVE-2018-16301 affecting package tcpdump for versions less than 4.99.1-1","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-01T05:23:33.139028Z","published":"2019-10-03T16:15:12Z","upstream":["CVE-2018-16301"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16301"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"tcpdump","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:2","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/tcpdump"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.99.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-8506.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}