CVE-2015-2155: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 7.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The force printer in tcpdump before 4.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 21 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.2 only
• Tcpdump Tcpdump: up to and including 4.7.0

Published 2015-03-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.