CVE-2003-1029

published 2004-02-17

CVE-2003-1029: The L2TP protocol parser in tcpdump 3.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory consumption) via a packet…

Priority P4 25 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I N A P

EXPLOIT

The L2TP protocol parser in tcpdump 3.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory consumption) via a packet with invalid data to UDP port 1701, which causes l2tp_avp_print to use a bad length value when calling print_octets.

Affected

11 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	tcpdump	< tcpdump 3.8.3-1 (bookworm)	tcpdump 3.8.3-1 (bookworm)
lbl	tcpdump	—	—
lbl	tcpdump	—	—
lbl	tcpdump	—	—
lbl	tcpdump	—	—
lbl	tcpdump	—	—
lbl	tcpdump	—	—
tcpdump	tcpdump	>= 0 < 3.8.3-1	3.8.3-1
tcpdump	tcpdump	>= 0 < 3.8.3-1	3.8.3-1
tcpdump	tcpdump	>= 0 < 3.8.3-1	3.8.3-1
tcpdump	tcpdump	>= 0 < 3.8.3-1	3.8.3-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 MEDIUM

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