CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-12990

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Sep 14, 2017 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
LOW

The ISAKMP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could enter an infinite loop due to bugs in print-isakmp.c, several functions.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Tcpdump Tcpdump * 4.9.1 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat tcpdump-14:4.9.2-3.el7 *
Tcpdump Ubuntu trusty *
Tcpdump Ubuntu upstream *
Tcpdump Ubuntu xenial *
Tcpdump Ubuntu zesty *

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