Tcpdump DNS Resolver Source Denial of Service Vulnerability

Tcpdump is a set of sniffing tools developed by the Tcpdump team that run at the command line. The tools allow users to intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets sent or received over a network connection to that computer.DNS parser is one of the Domain Name System DNS resolvers. A denial of...

PT-2017-12834

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions tcpdump versions prior to 4.9.2 Description The issue is related to the DNS parser in tcpdump, which could enter an infinite loop due to a bug in the ns print function. This is caused by a flaw in the print-domain.c file. Additionally, there i...