CVE-2003-0093

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Summary

CVECVE-2003-0093
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2003-03-03 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2017-10-10 01:30:00 UTC
DescriptionThe RADIUS decoder in tcpdump 3.6.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid RADIUS packet with a header length field of 0, which causes tcpdump to generate data within an infinite loop.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.4 All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.4a6 All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.5 All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.5.2 All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.6.2 All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.4 All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.4a6 All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.5 All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.5.2 All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.6.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Bug 81585 - CAN-2003-0093 tcpdump can crash a machine when it sees certain udp packets MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-261-1 tcpdump DEBIAN www.debian.org
Mandrakesoft Security Advisories MANDRAKE www.mandrakesoft.com
redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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