CVE-2014-8769
tcpdump: unreliable output using malformed AOVD payload
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Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
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 · 2.9AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write