Denial of Service Vulnerability in Tcpdump 3.4a via Zero Length Header Packet

CVE-1999-1024 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

ip_print procedure in Tcpdump 3.4a allows remote attackers 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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