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CVE-2018-14879
high
Description
The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer overflow in tcpdump.c:get_next_file().
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4547
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/28
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00015.html
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/9ba91381954ad325ea4fd26b9c65a8bd9a2a85b6
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html