VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-9140

medium
Published 2014-12-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Buffer overflow in the ppp_hdlc function in print-ppp.c in tcpdump 4.6.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) cia a crafted PPP packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4.6.2-3
debian debianbullseyefixed4.6.2-3
debian debianforkyfixed4.6.2-3
debian debiansidfixed4.6.2-3
debian debiantrixiefixed4.6.2-3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhattcpdump{"endIncluding":"4.6.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.