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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2000-05-18T04:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-08T05:14:21.442Z
Reserved: 2000-05-11T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2000-0333
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 1999-05-31T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-20T23:32:15.740
Link: CVE-2000-0333
Redhat
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