CVE-2000-0333

tcpdump, Ethereal, and other sniffer packages allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed DNS packets in which a jump offset refers to itself, which causes tcpdump to enter an infinite loop while decompressing the packet.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

1999-05-31

Last modified

2024-08-08

Affected products

• Ethereal (Ethereal Group)
• Tcpdump (Lbl)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1165
• http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=Pine.SOL.4.10.10005021942380.2077-100000%40paranoia.pgci…