Security Advisory

CVE-2014-8769

6.4

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date November 20, 2014
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory