Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : tcpdump vulnerabilities (USN-119-1)

It was discovered that certain invalid GRE, LDP, BGP, and RSVP packets triggered infinite loops in tcpdump, which caused tcpdump to stop working. This could be abused by a remote attacker to bypass tcpdump analysis of network traffic. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

FreeBSD : tcpdump -- infinite loops in protocol decoding (9fae0f1f-df82-11d9-b875-0001020eed82)

Problem Description Several tcpdump protocol decoders contain programming errors which can cause them to go into infinite loops. Impact An attacker can inject specially crafted packets into the network which, when processed by tcpdump, could lead to a denial-of-service. After the attack, tcpdump...

FreeBSD-SA-05:10.tcpdump

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-05:10.tcpdump Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Infinite loops in tcpdump protocol decoding Category: contrib Module: tcpdump Announced: 2005-06-09...

PHP getimagesize DoS

Infinite loops with 100 CPU utilization...

Linux TCP options signed/unsigned conversions DoS

TCP option length over 127 bytes can cause infinit loop inside netfilter if options are used in filtering rules...