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CVE-2015-2155

Published: 24 March 2015

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.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
tcpdump
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lucid Ignored
(end of life)
precise
Released (4.2.1-1ubuntu2.2)
trusty
Released (4.5.1-2ubuntu1.2)
upstream
Released (4.7.2)
utopic
Released (4.6.2-1ubuntu1.2)
vivid Not vulnerable
(4.6.2-4ubuntu1)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/1d1e1d919677cabaa636e96a8c1cde7753419cae
upstream: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/3aad648ad05fd12217c56322d4514b659f3b9fa4
upstream: http://www.ca.tcpdump.org/cve/0001-in-some-cases-we-expect-tcpdump-to-fail-with-an-erro.patch
upstream: http://www.ca.tcpdump.org/cve/0002-test-case-files-for-CVE-2015-2153-2154-2155.patch
upstream: http://www.ca.tcpdump.org/cve/0003-test-case-for-cve2015-0261-corrupted-IPv6-mobility-h.patch
This vulnerability is mitigated in part by an AppArmor profile.