Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-12995  

An infinite loop vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump's handling of DNS in tcpdump <= 4.9.1. An attacker could craft a malicious pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network that would cause tcpdump to enter an infinite loop while processing the packet data leading to denial of service.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

An infinite loop vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump's handling of DNS in tcpdump <= 4.9.1. An attacker could craft a malicious pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network that would cause tcpdump to enter an infinite loop while processing the packet data leading to denial of service.

AVG-361 tcpdump 4.9.1-1 4.9.2-1 Critical Fixed

13 Sep 2017 ASA-201709-5 AVG-361 tcpdump Critical multiple issues

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/3a76fd7c95fced2c2f8c8148a9055c3a542eff29