7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-1999-1024

Published: 28/11/2001 Updated: 18/10/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 755
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

ip_print procedure in Tcpdump 3.4a allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service via a packet with a zero length header, which causes an infinite loop and core dump when tcpdump prints the packet.

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Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/313/info A vulnerability in tcpdump causes it to enter an infinite loop within the procedure ip_print() from the file print_ipc when it receives a packet with IP protocol number four and a zero header length and it tries to print it This may allow remote malicious users to evade network monitoring /* tc ...