CVE-2015-2155

high

Published 2015-03-24 · 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

7.5

Description

The force printer in tcpdump before 4.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

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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OS impact

Fedora Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
21	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.2	Affected	—
13.1	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 7 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.6.2-4`
sid	Fixed	`4.6.2-4`
forky	Fixed	`4.6.2-4`
bullseye	Fixed	`4.6.2-4`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.6.2-4`
8.0	Affected	—
7.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
tcpdump	tcpdump	`{"endIncluding":"4.7.0"}`

References

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

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