Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-3138

Title: Tcpdump Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-3138.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Sep 28, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.28%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-3138: print-wb.c in tcpdump before 4.7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and process crash).

Impacted Vendors

lbl 1

redhat 1

tcpdump 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-05/msg00018.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212342 https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/3ed82f4ed0095768529afc22b923c8f7171fff70 https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/446 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-05/msg00018.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212342 https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/3ed82f4ed0095768529afc22b923c8f7171fff70 https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/446

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns