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CVE-2003-1029

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2004-02-17 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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 l2tp_avp_print to use a bad length value when calling print_octets.

Affected Platforms

Lbl Tcpdump

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References