CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0333

5.0 MEDIUM Published 1999-05-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-05-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• ethereal group ethereal 0.8.4 • ethereal group ethereal 0.8.5 • ethereal group ethereal 0.8.6 • lbl tcpdump 3.4 • lbl tcpdump 3.5a

References