CVE-2015-0261 (GCVE-0-2015-0261)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-03-24 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:03
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Integer signedness error in the mobility_opt_print function in the IPv6 mobility printer in tcpdump before 4.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative length value.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
16 references
Date Public
2015-03-09 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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