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CVE-2015-3138

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

print-wb.c in tcpdump before 4.7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and process crash).

Affected products

• openSUSE Leap: 42.2
• Opensuse Project Leap: 42.1
• The Tcpdump Group tcpdump: through 4.7.3

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-05/msg00018.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212342
• https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/3ed82f4ed0095768529afc22b923c8f7171fff70
• https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/446
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-05/msg00018.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212342
• https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/3ed82f4ed0095768529afc22b923c8f7171fff70
• https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/446

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