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tcpdump - infinite loop

Package(s):tcpdump CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0108
Created:February 28, 2003 Updated:May 1, 2003
Description: Andrew Griffiths and iDEFENSE Labs discovered a problem in tcpdump, a powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition. An attacker is able to send a specially crafted network packet which causes tcpdump to enter an infinite loop.

In addition to the above problem the tcpdump developers discovered a potential infinite loop when parsing malformed BGP packets. They also discovered a buffer overflow that can be exploited with certain malformed NFS packets.

Alerts:
EnGarde ESA-20030430-014 2003-04-30
Red Hat RHSA-2003:032-01 2003-04-23
Conectiva CLA-2003:629 2003-04-22
Debian DSA-261-1 2003-03-14
SuSE SuSE-SA:2003:0015 2003-03-13
Gentoo 200303-5 2003-03-05
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2003.014 2003-03-04
Mandrake MDKSA-2003:027 2003-03-03
Debian DSA-255-1 2003-02-27

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