CVE-2014-8768

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-11-13
CWE:
CWE-190->CWE-787
Bugzilla:
1165161: CVE-2014-8768 tcpdump: denial of service in verbose mode using malformed Geonet payload

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2014-8768 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.9
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 tcpdump Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tcpdump Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 tcpdump Will not fix

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