CVE-2018-16300

tcpdump: Resource exhaustion in bgp_attr_print() function in print-bgp.c

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 2, 2019

Updated · December 4, 2025

Description

An uncontrolled resource consumption flaw was discovered in the way tcpdump prints BGP packets. The BGP protocol allows ATTR_SET to be nested as many times as the message can accommodate, however when a specially crafted packet is crafted and parsed by tcpdump, this may lead to stack exhaustion due to uncontrolled recursion. System availability is the highest threat from this vulnerability.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption