Bug 1201798 (CVE-2015-2155)

Summary:	CVE-2015-2155 tcpdump: force printer vulnerability
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	athmanem, carnil, msekleta, thozza
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	tcpdump 4.7.2	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2016-06-01 19:23:04 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1201799
Bug Blocks:	1201800, 1415638

Description Martin Prpič 2015-03-13 14:16:25 UTC

A flaw was found in tcpdump's force printer. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause tcpdump to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Upstream patch:

http://www.ca.tcpdump.org/cve/0002-test-case-files-for-CVE-2015-2153-2154-2155.patch

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-03-13 14:17:37 UTC

Created tcpdump tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1201799]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 12:14:34 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1871 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1871