CVE-2018-16300
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.95%
Description
The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 allows stack consumption in print-bgp.c:bgp_attr_print() because of unlimited recursion.
How to fix CVE-2018-16300
To remediate CVE-2018-16300, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/tcpdump—upgrade to 4.9.3-r0 or later
- Debian/tcpdump—upgrade to 4.9.3-1 or later
Is CVE-2018-16300 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.9%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.9.3-r0
- from 0, < 4.9.3-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |