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Bugtraq: Re: Remote crash in tcpdump from OpenBSD

Re: Remote crash in tcpdump from OpenBSD

From: Henning Brauer <hb-bugtraq_at_bsws.de>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 20:52:18 +0100

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 05:25:22PM +0100, Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote:
> >Description:
> Sending a packet containg 0xff,0x02 bytes to port 1701/udp causes
> a L2TP protocol parser in tcpdump to enter an infinite loop, eating
> all available memory and then segfaulting.
>
> This bug also affects tcpdump in -CURRENT.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> tcpdump -i lo0 -n udp and dst port 1701 &
> perl -e 'print "\xff\x02"' | nc -u localhost 1701

several developers including me cannot reproduce that on -current.

-- 
Henning Brauer, BS Web Services, http://bsws.de
hb_at_bsws.de - henning_at_openbsd.org
Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
(Dennis Ritchie)
Received on Dec 20 2003
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