CVE-2003-1029

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Summary

CVECVE-2003-1029
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-02-17 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.4 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 3.6.3 All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.7 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
'Re: Remote crash in tcpdump from OpenBSD' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Secunia - Advisories - tcpdump ISAKMP and RADIUS Packet Handling Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for tcpdump af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Mandrake update for tcpdump af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-425-1 tcpdump af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
LWN: EnGarde alert ESA-20040119-002 (tcpdump) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lwn.net
Secunia - Advisories - EnGarde update for tcpdump af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Mandriva Security Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
'[tcpdump-workers] Seg fault of tcpdump (v 3.8.1 and below) with malformed l2tp packets' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
'Remote crash in tcpdump from OpenBSD' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Tcpdump l2tp_avp_print() Flaw May Let Remote Users Crash the System With Malformed L2TP Packets - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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