{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2155","details":"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.","modified":"2026-02-04T03:15:17.821339Z","published":"2015-03-24T00:00:00Z","related":["USN-2580-1"],"upstream":["CVE-2015-2155"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2155"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Mar/33"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2580-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2155"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"tcpdump","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/tcpdump@4.5.1-2ubuntu1.2?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.5.1-2ubuntu1.2"}]}],"versions":["4.4.0-1ubuntu1","4.5.1-2ubuntu1","4.5.1-2ubuntu1.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"4.5.1-2ubuntu1.2","binary_name":"tcpdump"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2155.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}