VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2007-1030

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability3.11%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2007-02-21
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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