vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2018-16452: CVE-2018-16452 tcpdump: Resource exhaustion in smb_fdata() funtion in smbutil.c (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Oct 3, 2019 | Nov 5, 2020 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 3, 2019
Added
Nov 5, 2020
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
Description
The SMB parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has stack exhaustion in smbutil.c:smb_fdata() via recursion.
Solutions
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