VDB
GHSA-q8wg-hg8m-chwf
GHSA-q8wg-hg8m-chwf
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 24, 2022
The SMB parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has stack exhaustion in smbutil.c:smb_fdata() via recursion.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Timeline
- May 24, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (2 in total, the first dated here)
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16452 advisory
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES url
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNYXF3IY2X65IOD422SA6EQUULSGW7FN url
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62XY42U6HY3H2APR5EHNWCZ7SAQNMMJN url
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/28 url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00053.html url
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2UDPOSGVJQIYC33SQBXMDXHH4QDSDMU url
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23 url
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200120-0001 url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00050.html url
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26 url
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/24182d959f661327525a20d9a94c98a8ec016778 fix
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00015.html advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788 advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1 advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-2 advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4547 advisory