CVE-2005-1279

EPSS 56.8%

tcpdump - denial of service

Published: 5/2/2005Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1279

Description

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.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/tcpdumpfrom 0, < 3.8.3-4
Debian/tcpdumpfrom 0, < 3.6.2-2.9

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-1279