CVE-2004-0183: Tcpdump

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

TCPDUMP 3.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via ISAKMP packets containing a Delete payload with a large number of SPI's, which causes an out-of-bounds read, as demonstrated by the Striker ISAKMP Protocol Test Suite.

Affected products

• Tcpdump Tcpdump: up to and including 3.8.1

Published 2004-05-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.