CVE-2014-9140: Red Hat Tcpdump

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Tcpdump: up to and including 4.6.2

Published 2014-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.