CVE-2014-8769: Red Hat Tcpdump

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Tcpdump: version 3.8.0 only; version 3.8.2 only; version 3.9.2 only; version 3.9.3 only; version 3.9.4 only; version 3.9.5 only; …

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