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CVE-2017-12990

Impact:: Low
Public Date:: 2017-09-13
CWE:: CWE-835

Bugzilla:: 1490556: CVE-2017-12990 tcpdump: Infinite loop due to bugs in print-isakmp.c, several functions in ISAKMP parser

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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

Find out more about CVE-2017-12990 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score	6.5
CVSS3 Base Metrics	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (tcpdump)	RHEA-2018:0705	2018-04-10

Affected Packages State

Platform	Package	State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	tcpdump	Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	tcpdump	Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Tcpdump project for reporting this issue.

Last Modified 2018-05-17T05:03:28+00:00

CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation