CVE-2023-1801

tcpdump: OOB write in SMB decoder

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · April 7, 2023

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A vulnerability was found in the tcpdump tool. This issue allows the SMB protocol decoder in tcpdump to perform an out-of-bounds write when decoding a crafted network packet.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write