CVE-2015-2155

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 21
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2
The Tcpdump Group tcpdump: through 4.7.0

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0114.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153834.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00084.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130730/tcpdump-Denial-Of-Service-Code-Execution.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3193
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:125
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:182
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534829/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73021
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031937
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2580-1

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