CVE-2018-14466

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

The Rx parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-rx.c:rx_cache_find() and rx_cache_insert().

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14466

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2020:4760

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14466.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
rockylinux rocky8fixed
debian debianbookwormfixed4.9.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.9.3-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.9.3-1
debian debiansidfixed4.9.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.9.3-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.