CVE-2015-2155
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 7.81% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 94.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2015-03-24 17:00Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 05:10Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-02-28
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- b22c830541d2654d5541303c196bd5457eacffea8560495650138400edc07902
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201798
- www.securityfocus.com73021http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73021
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-4939http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153834.html
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2015:125http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:125
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130730/tcpdump-Denial-Of-Service-Code-Execution.html
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:1871https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1871
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
- www.securitytracker.com1031937http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031937
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201510-04https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-04
- advisories.mageia.orghttp://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0114.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2580-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2580-1
- www.securityfocus.com20150309 tcpdump 4.7.2 remote crasheshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534829/100/0/threaded
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2015:0616http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00084.html
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2015:182http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:182
- www.debian.orgDSA-3193http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3193
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- tcpdump Fixed in 4.6.2-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- tcpdump Fixed in 4.6.2-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- tcpdump Fixed in 4.6.2-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- tcpdump Fixed in 4.5.1-2ubuntu1.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.