{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-16300 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2018-16300 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Tcpdump Tcpdump, published on 3 Oct 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2018-16300 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2018-16300 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Tcpdump Tcpdump, published on 3 Oct 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-16300 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Tcpdump Tcpdump. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-16300/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-16300/index.md)","id":"CVE-2018-16300","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-16300/index.md","name":"CVE-2018-16300","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2018-16300","DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16300","GHSA-3jcc-vp6f-3wj7","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16300"],"analysis":{"component_type":"developer_tool","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Network packet analyzer","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An attacker can cause a denial of service in tcpdump via stack consumption in the BGP parser due to unlimited recursion.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"tcpdump","vendor":"tcpdump"}],"cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-674","name":"Uncontrolled Recursion"}],"description":"The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 allows stack consumption in print-bgp.c:bgp_attr_print() because of unlimited recursion.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-16300","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"tcpdump:tcpdump","products":["tcpdump:tcpdump"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2018"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":16,"next":{"headline":"Memory corruption in tcpdump","id":"CVE-2018-16301"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-16299"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2019-10-03","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"tcpdump before 4.9.3 mishandles the printing of SMB data (issue 1 of 2).","id":"CVE-2018-10103","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-10-03"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-10105","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-10-03"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-12893","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-09-14"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-12894","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-09-14"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-12895","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-09-14"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-12897","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-09-14"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-12898","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-09-14"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-12-03","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"An attacker can cause a denial of service in tcpdump via stack consumption in the BGP parser due to unlimited recursion.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-16300/"}