CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-8768

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2014-11-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-11-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-191

Description

Multiple Integer underflows in the geonet_print function in tcpdump 4.5.0 through 4.6.2, when in verbose mode, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted length value in a Geonet frame.

Affected configurations

• opensuse opensuse 13.1 • opensuse opensuse 13.2 • canonical ubuntu linux 10.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.10 • oracle solaris 11.2 • redhat tcpdump 4.5.0 • redhat tcpdump 4.5.1 • redhat tcpdump 4.5.2 • redhat tcpdump 4.6.0 • redhat tcpdump 4.6.1 • redhat tcpdump 4.6.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) weakness

References