CVE-2004-0184

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 60.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-05-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

Integer underflow in the isakmp_id_print for TCPDUMP 3.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an ISAKMP packet with an Identification payload with a length that becomes less than 8 during byte order conversion, which causes an out-of-bounds read, as demonstrated by the Striker ISAKMP Protocol Test Suite.

Affected products

The Tcpdump Group tcpdump: through 3.8.1

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108067265931525&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/11258
http://securitytracker.com/id?1009593
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-478
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/492558
http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0017.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-219.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10004
http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump-changes.txt
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0015
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1468
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15679

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