Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-1030 - Denial Of Service vulnerability in Niels Provos Libevent 1.2/1.2A
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Niels Provos libevent 1.2 and 1.2a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a DNS response containing a label pointer that references its own offset.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 |
Statements
| contributor | Mark J Cox |
| lastmodified | 2008-04-04 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of libevent as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. |