CVE-2007-1030

high

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.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0647

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22606

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460530/100/0/threaded

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2268

http://secunia.com/advisories/24181

http://osvdb.org/33228

http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-02-21

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H