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high 7.5

CVE-2015-2155 json

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

published 2015-03-24 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-2265

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.8%
EPSS 7.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • tcpdump Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.6.2-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2155

  • tcpdump Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.5.1-2ubuntu1.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2155

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • tcpdump RHEL 7 14:4.9.0-5.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:1871

  • libpcap SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +8 more 1.8.1-9.1
  • tcpdump SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +4 more 4.9.0-13.1
  • tcpdump SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 4.5.1-7.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1110-1SUSE-SU-2015:0679-1

  • tcpdump openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.7.4-3.4

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10396-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-2155 updated cvss 6.8

tcpdump: force printer vulnerability

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 tcpdump Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tcpdump
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) tcpdump 4.9.0-5.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) tcpdump 4.9.0-5.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) tcpdump 4.9.0-5.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) tcpdump 4.9.0-5.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1871

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

7.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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