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CVE-2014-8769

tcpdump: unreliable output using malformed AOVD 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 · November 21, 2025

Description

tcpdump 3.8 through 4.6.2 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from memory or cause a denial of service (packet loss or segmentation fault) via a crafted Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) packet, which triggers an out-of-bounds memory access.

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-787 · Out-of-bounds Write