CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
98.4%
Problem Description
Several tcpdump protocol decoders contain programming
errors which can cause them to go into infinite loops.
Impact
An attacker can inject specially crafted packets into the
network which, when processed by tcpdump, could lead to a
denial-of-service. After the attack, tcpdump would no
longer capture traffic, and would potentially use all
available processor time.