CVE-2024-2397

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2397
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-2397.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-2397
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-04-12T14:15:07Z
Modified
2025-10-10T04:51:49.106422Z
Summary
[none]
Details

Due to a bug in packet data buffers management, the PPP printer in tcpdump can enter an infinite loop when reading a crafted DLTPPPSERIAL .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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
b9811ef5bb1b7d45a90e042f81f3aaf233c8bcb2

Affected versions

tcpdump-3.*

tcpdump-3.5.1
tcpdump-3.6.1
tcpdump-3.7.1
tcpdump-3.8-bp

tcpdump-4.*

tcpdump-4.5.0
tcpdump-4.6.0
tcpdump-4.6.0-bp
tcpdump-4.7.0-bp
tcpdump-4.9.0-bp
tcpdump-4.99-bp
tcpdump-4.99.0-bp

Database specific 

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