CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-1030
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-02-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Description
Niels Provos libevent 1.2 and 1.2a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a DNS response containing a label pointer that references its own offset.
Affected configurations
• niels provos libevent 1.2
• niels provos libevent 1.2a
References
- http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ monkey.org
- http://osvdb.org/33228 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24181 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2268 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460530/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22606 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0647 www.vupen.com
- http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ monkey.org
- http://osvdb.org/33228 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24181 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2268 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460530/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22606 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0647 www.vupen.com