CVE-2005-1279 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-1279 at MITRE

Description

tcpdump 3.8.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted (1) BGP packet, which is not properly handled by RT_ROUTING_INFO, or (2) LDP packet, which is not properly handled by the ldp_print function.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 80582 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 91571 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2005:017, published Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:15:14 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:39 2025