Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package arpwatch  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-ARPWATCH-1364129
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed13 Sept 2017

Introduced: 13 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-12995  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:6.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream arpwatch package and not the arpwatch package as distributed by RHEL.

The DNS parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 could enter an infinite loop due to a bug in print-domain.c:ns_print().