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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 9, 2003· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2003-0194

CVE-2003-0194

Description

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

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Affected products

11

Red Hat/Tcpdump6 versions
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:tcpdump:3.4-39:*:i386:*:*:*:*:*+ 5 more
- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:tcpdump:3.4-39:*:i386:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:tcpdump:3.6.2-12:*:i386:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:tcpdump:3.6.2-9:*:i386:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:tcpdump:3.6.2-9:*:ia64:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:tcpdump:3.6.3-3:*:i386:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:tcpdump:3.7.2-1:*:i386:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Linux5 versions
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 4 more
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:9.0:*:i386:*:*:*:*:*

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References

2

www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-174.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-151.htmlnvd

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