CVE-2007-1030 Information

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.

Reference

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