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Rocky Linux: CVE-2018-14879: tcpdump (RLSA-2020-4760)

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Rocky Linux: CVE-2018-14879: tcpdump (RLSA-2020-4760)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/03/2019
Created
03/13/2024
Added
03/12/2024
Modified
03/12/2024

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • rocky-upgrade-tcpdump
  • rocky-upgrade-tcpdump-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-tcpdump-debugsource

References

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