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CVE-2014-8768

tcpdump: denial of service in verbose mode using malformed Geonet payload

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.9

CVSS 2.0

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Published · November 13, 2014

Updated · June 27, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 2.9
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-805 · Buffer Access with Incorrect Length Value