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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cve-icon 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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1999-05-31T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-20T23:32:15.740

Link: CVE-2000-0333

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