CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0093

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2003-03-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-03-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The 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.

Affected configurations

• lbl tcpdump 3.4 • lbl tcpdump 3.4a6 • lbl tcpdump 3.5 • lbl tcpdump 3.5.2 • lbl tcpdump 3.6.2

References