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Debian: CVE-2018-14879: tcpdump -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-14879: tcpdump -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/03/2019
Created
10/16/2019
Added
10/15/2019
Modified
03/05/2020

Description

The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer overflow in tcpdump.c:get_next_file().

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-tcpdump

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