Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-1024 - Unspecified vulnerability in LBL Tcpdump 3.4

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
lbl
exploit available

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Lbl
1

Exploit-Db

descriptiontcpdump 3.4 Protocol Four and Zero Header Length Vulnerability. CVE-1999-1024. Remote exploit for linux platform
idEDB-ID:19251
last seen2016-02-02
modified1999-06-16
published1999-06-16
reporterbadi
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/19251/
titletcpdump 3.4 Protocol Four and Zero Header Length Vulnerability