Vulnerability Bulletins

Vulnerability in AIX tcpdump

   
Affected software IBM
 
(from cve.mitre.org) CVE-2014-8769 tcpdump is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of input by the application decoder for the Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) protocol. By sending specially-crafted data, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash. Please see following for more information: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8769 CVE(s): CVE-2014-8769 Affected product(s) and affected version(s):

More info:

https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/PSIRT/entry/vulnerability_in_aix_tcpdump?lang=en_us