Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2015-2153

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2153 describes an out-of-bounds read or write vulnerability in the rpki_rtr_pdu_print function of tcpdump versions prior to 4.7.2. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (crash) by sending a specially crafted RPKI-RTR Protocol Data Unit (PDU) with a malicious header length. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to potential availability impact. While not listed on the KEV catalog or Hot List, an exploit demonstrating a denial of service is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
19.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-37663 · Jul 20, 2015
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1903 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: tcpdump-14:4.9.0-5.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: tcpdump
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: tcpdump

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-2153Moderate

tcpdump: tcp printer rpki_rtr_pdu_print() missing length check

Mar 9, 2015

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2015-0114.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153834.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153999.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00084.html
packetstormsecurity.com / files/130730/tcpdump-Denial-Of-Service-Code-Execution.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1871
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201510-04
exploit-db.com / exploits/37663
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3193
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/534829/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/73018
securitytracker.com / id/1031937
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2580-1