CVE-1999-1024: Lbl Tcpdump

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

  • Lbl Tcpdump: version 3.4 only

Published 2001-11-28. Last modified 2026-09-25.