CVE-2007-1030

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Niels Provos libevent 1.2 and 1.2a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a DNS response containing a label pointer that references its own offset.

Affected products

Niels Provos Libevent: 1.2, 1.2a

References

http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
http://osvdb.org/33228
http://secunia.com/advisories/24181
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2268
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460530/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22606
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0647
http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
http://osvdb.org/33228
http://secunia.com/advisories/24181
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2268
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460530/100/0/threaded

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