CVE-2003-0989: Red Hat Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

tcpdump before 3.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via certain ISAKMP packets, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0057.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 9.0 only
• Red Hat Tcpdump: up to and including 3.8.0

Published 2004-02-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.