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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

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Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-19891, EDB-19892

  2. CVE published
  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 4

securityfocus.com

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