CVE-2014-8769: redhat tcpdump

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-8769 is a medium (CVSS 6.4) vulnerability in redhat tcpdump. EPSS estimates a 5.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 20-11-2014
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.