CVE-2007-1653

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-03-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

GlowWorm FW before 1.5.3b4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via certain DNS responses that trigger infinite recursion in TrueDNS packet parsing, as originally observed with certain login.yahoo.com responses.

Affected products

Glowworm: through 1.5.3b3

References

http://glowworm.us/history/release_1_5_3_b4.html
http://osvdb.org/43597
http://glowworm.us/history/release_1_5_3_b4.html
http://osvdb.org/43597

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