description: The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.99.0 has a buffer overflow in tcpdump.c:read_infile(). To trigger this vulnerability the attacker needs to create a 4GB file on the local filesystem and to specify the file name as the value of the -F command-line argument of tcpdump.
problem types: CWE-190 integer overflow or wraparound
affected:
{
product: tcpdump
vendor: The Tcpdump Group
versions:
lessThan: 4.99.0, status: affected, version: unspecified, versionType: custom
}