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CVE-2015-2154

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2154 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the osi_print_cksum function of tcpdump versions prior to 4.7.2. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (crash) by sending crafted checksum values for length, offset, or base pointers. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is a low-severity vulnerability that can be exploited over the network with low complexity and no authentication, leading to availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

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
4.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0447 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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-2015-2154Low

tcpdump: ethernet printer osi_print_cksum() missing sanity checks out-of-bounds read

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
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/73017
securitytracker.com / id/1031937
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2580-1