CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-2397

6.2 MEDIUM Published 2024-04-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2024-04-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-835

Description

Due to a bug in packet data buffers management, the PPP printer in tcpdump can enter an infinite loop when reading a crafted DLT_PPP_SERIAL .pcap savefile. This problem does not affect any tcpdump release, but it affected the git master branch from 2023-06-05 to 2024-03-21.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References