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 offset refers to itself, which causes tcpdump to enter an infinite loop while decompressing the packet...

CVE-2000-0333

The CVE affects tcpdump, Ethereal, and other sniffer packages that decode DNS packets. A crafted DNS query with malformed compressed labels (a pointer that references itself or creates cycles) can cause the decoder to loop, potentially consuming all CPU and crashing the process, i.e., a denial-of...

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 offset refers to itself, which causes tcpdump to enter an infinite loop while decompressing the packet...