Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability in tcpdump 3.8 through 4.6.2

CVE-2014-8769 · MEDIUM Severity

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

tcpdump 3.8 through 4.6.2 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from memory or cause a denial of service (packet loss or segmentation fault) via a crafted Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) packet, which triggers an out-of-bounds memory access.

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