Out-of-Bounds Affecting tcpdump package, versions [0,4.7.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.96% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TCPDUMP-2429210
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-8769  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tcpdump to version 4.7.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds tcpdump 3.8 through 4.6.2 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from memory or cause a denial of service (packet loss or segmentation fault) via a crafted Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) packet, which triggers an out-of-bounds memory access.

CVSS Scores

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