Vulnerability CVE-2003-1029
Published: 2004-02-17   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The L2TP protocol parser in tcpdump 3.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory consumption) via a packet with invalid data to UDP port 1701, which causes l2tp_avp_print to use a bad length value when calling print_octets.

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
LBL -> Tcpdump 

 References:
http://lwn.net/Alerts/66805/
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107193841728533&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107213553214985&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=tcpdump-workers&m=107228187124962&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-425
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:008
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/350238/30/21640/threaded
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1008748
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