CVE-1999-1024
tcpdump 3.4a - Denial of Service via Zero-Length Header Packet
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-1999-1024. PoCs published by badi.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit triggers a DoS in tcpdump 3.4a6 by sending a malformed IP packet with protocol number 4 and a zero header length, causing an infinite loop in the ip_print() function. The PoC constructs and sends a raw IP packet with these properties to crash or hang the target system.
Description
ip_print procedure in Tcpdump 3.4a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a packet with a zero length header, which causes an infinite loop and core dump when tcpdump prints the packet.
Exploits (1)
This exploit triggers a DoS in tcpdump 3.4a6 by sending a malformed IP packet with protocol number 4 and a zero header length, causing an infinite loop in the ip_print() function. The PoC constructs and sends a raw IP packet with these properties to crash or hang the target system.