Posted by Steffen Bauch on Nov 18

CVE-2014-8767 tcpdump denial of service in verbose mode using malformed
OLSR payload

1. Background

tcpdump is a powerful command-line packet analyzer. It allows the user
to intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets being transmitted or
received over a network to which the computer is attached.

2. Summary Information

It was found out that malformed network traffic (OLSR-based) can lead to
an application crash (denial of service) if…