9.1

CVE-2019-15167: tcpdump Out-of-bounds Read

CVSS: 9.1v3.1CriticalModified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2019-15167UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15167DEBIAN-CVE-2019-15167
Published 27-08-2022Last modified 03-12-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2019-15167 is a critical (CVSS 9.1) Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in tcpdump. EPSS estimates a 1.03% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.1/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
1.03%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 7
MGASA-2019-0297OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2344-1OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2348-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11425-1SUSE-SU-2019:2674-1SUSE-SU-2020:3360-1

Timeline

  1. 27-08-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-12-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The VRRP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-vrrp.c:vrrp_print() for VRRP version 3, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-14463.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.03%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

63%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.03% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
1.03%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Alpine1 product
  • tcpdump< 4.9.3-r0
Debian1 product
  • tcpdump< 4.9.3-1
Tcpdump1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • tcpdump< 4.9.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1 | < 4.9.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 | < 4.9.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

4 vendors · 4 products

References

8 links