CVE-2003-0194 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2003-0194

tcpdump does not properly drop privileges to the pcap user...

Vulnerability Description

tcpdump does not properly drop privileges to the pcap user when starting up.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

tcpdump, linux
Vulnerable Versions:
3.4-39, 3.6.2-9, 3.6.2-12, 3.6.3-3, 3.7.2-1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0

Timeline

Official Publish: May 17th, 2003
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.