National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-1030
Original release date:02/21/2007
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (04/04/2008)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of libevent as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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External Source: BID
Name: 22606
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-0647
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070219 Remote DoS in libevent DNS parsing <= 1.2a
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24181
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 33228
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
External Source: SREASON
Name: 2268