Vulnerability Report

CVE-2018-16451

Title: Tcpdump Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2018-16451.

CWE Category CWE-125
Published Date Oct 03, 2019
Modified Date Dec 03, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
4.13%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2018-16451: The SMB parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has buffer over-reads in print-smb.c:print_trans() for \MAILSLOT\BROWSE and \PIPE\LANMAN.

Impacted Vendors

L
lbl 1
R
redhat 1
T
tcpdump 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26 https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/96480ab95308cd9234b4f09b175ebf60e17792c6 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00015.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/ https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23 https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/28 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200120-0001/ https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/ https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4547 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26 https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/96480ab95308cd9234b4f09b175ebf60e17792c6 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00015.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU/ https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23 https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/28 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200120-0001/ https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2/ https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4547
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Severity CRITICAL
9.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2018-16451 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.