Debian DSA-261-1 : tcpdump - infinite loop

A problem has been discovered in tcpdump, a powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition. An attacker is able to send a specially crafted RADIUS network packet which causes tcpdump to enter an infinite loop. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text an...

CVE-2003-0093

The CVE-2003-0093 entry concerns tcpdump 3.6.2 and earlier, where the RADIUS packet decoder can crash the process by processing an invalid RADIUS packet with a header length field of 0. This condition causes tcpdump to enter an infinite loop, yielding a denial of service. Connected documents (e.g...

CVE-2003-0093

The RADIUS decoder in tcpdump 3.6.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via an invalid RADIUS packet with a header length field of 0, which causes tcpdump to generate data within an infinite loop...

CVE-2003-0093

The RADIUS decoder in tcpdump 3.6.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via an invalid RADIUS packet with a header length field of 0, which causes tcpdump to generate data within an infinite loop...