Vulnerability Monitor

The vendors, products, and vulnerabilities you care about

CVE-2014-9140

Buffer overflow in the ppp_hdlc function in print-ppp.c in tcpdump 4.6.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) cia a crafted PPP packet.

Published

2014-12-05T16:59:12.910

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	redhat	tcpdump	≤ 4.6.2	Yes

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0511.html ([email protected])
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00084.html ([email protected])
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130730/tcpdump-Denial-Of-Service-Code-Execution.html ([email protected])
http://seclists.org/tcpdump/2014/q4/72 ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3086 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3193 ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:240 ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:125 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534829/100/0/threaded ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71468 ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2433-1 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/0f95d441e4b5d7512cc5c326c8668a120e048eda Exploit ([email protected])
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031 ([email protected])
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0511.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00084.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130730/tcpdump-Denial-Of-Service-Code-Execution.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://seclists.org/tcpdump/2014/q4/72 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3086 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3193 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:240 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:125 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534829/100/0/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71468 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2433-1 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/0f95d441e4b5d7512cc5c326c8668a120e048eda Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)