CVE-2014-8768

medium

Published 2014-11-20 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-35359 dos multiple

Steffen Bauch · 2014-11-24

tcpdump 4.6.2 - Geonet Decoder Denial of Service

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.2	Affected	—
13.1	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
14.10	Affected	—
14.04	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—
10.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.6.2-2`
sid	Fixed	`4.6.2-2`
forky	Fixed	`4.6.2-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`4.6.2-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.6.2-2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
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`

References

CWEs

CWE-191

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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