A vulnerability has been identified in Tcpdump, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands. This issue is due to an off-by-one buffer overflow error within the "parse_elements()" [print-802_11.c] function when processing malformed 802.11 frames, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Moritz Jodeit
ChangeLog
2007-03-01 : Initial release
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