CVE-2003-0194: Red Hat Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

tcpdump does not properly drop privileges to the pcap user when starting up.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Red Hat Tcpdump: version 3.4-39 only; version 3.6.2-9 only; version 3.6.2-12 only; version 3.6.3-3 only; version 3.7.2-1 only

Published 2003-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.