DEBIAN-CVE-2003-1029

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2003-1029
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2003-1029.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2003-1029
Upstream
Published
2004-02-17T05:00:00Z
Modified
2025-09-24T23:49:03.254850Z
Summary
[none]
Details

The L2TP protocol parser in tcpdump 3.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory consumption) via a packet with invalid data to UDP port 1701, which causes l2tpavpprint to use a bad length value when calling print_octets.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.8.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.8.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.8.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / tcpdump

Package

Name
tcpdump
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tcpdump?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.8.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}