Severity
6.4MEDIUM
EPSS
3.1%
top 13.29%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 20
Latest updateMay 14

Description

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 vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 4.9

Affected Packages2 packages

Debiantcpdump< 4.6.2-2+3
NVDredhat/tcpdump23 versions+22

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-rfvv-px5p-7fmg: tcpdump 32022-05-14
OSV
CVE-2014-8769: tcpdump 32014-11-20
CVEList
CVE-2014-8769: tcpdump 32014-11-20

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
tcpdump vulnerabilities2014-12-04
Red Hat
tcpdump: unreliable output using malformed AOVD payload2014-11-13
Debian
CVE-2014-8769: tcpdump - tcpdump 3.8 through 4.6.2 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive infor...2014
Apple
CVE-2014-8769: OS X Yosemite v10.10.5 and Security Update 2015-006

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-8769 tcpdump: unreliable output using malformed AOVD payload2014-11-18
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-8769 tcpdump: unreliable output using malformed AOVD payload [fedora-all]2014-11-18
CVE-2014-8769 (MEDIUM CVSS 6.4) | tcpdump 3.8 through 4.6.2 might all | cvebase.io