CVE-2024-2397 Information

Description

Due to a bug in packet data buffers management the PPP printer in tcpdump can enter an infinite loop when reading a crafted DLT_PPP_SERIAL .pcap savefile. This problem does not affect any tcpdump release but it affected the git master branch from 2023-06-05 to 2024-03-21.

Reference

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/b9811ef5bb1b7d45a90e042f81f3aaf233c8bcb2