Bug 1201798 (CVE-2015-2155) - CVE-2015-2155 tcpdump: force printer vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2015-2155 tcpdump: force printer vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2015-2155
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1201799
Blocks: 1201800 1415638
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Reported: 2015-03-13 14:16 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2019-11-14 06:39 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: tcpdump 4.7.2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-06-01 19:23:04 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1871 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: tcpdump security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-08-01 16:00:24 UTC

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
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