CVE-2014-8768: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 19.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple Integer underflows in the geonet_print function in tcpdump 4.5.0 through 4.6.2, when in verbose mode, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted length value in a Geonet frame.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.2 only
• Red Hat Tcpdump: version 4.5.0 only; version 4.5.1 only; version 4.5.2 only; version 4.6.0 only; version 4.6.1 only; version 4.6.2 only

Published 2014-11-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.