CVE-2018-16300: Tcpdump

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 allows stack consumption in print-bgp.c:bgp_attr_print() because of unlimited recursion.

Affected products

• Tcpdump Tcpdump: before 4.9.3 (fixed in 4.9.3)

Published 2019-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.