Denial of Service Vulnerability in tcpdump 3.8.3 and Earlier

CVE-2005-1279 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

tcpdump 3.8.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted (1) BGP packet, which is not properly handled by RT_ROUTING_INFO, or (2) LDP packet, which is not properly handled by the ldp_print function.

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