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.