CVE-2000-0333

First published: Mon May 31 1999(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

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