CVE-2000-0333

Summary

CVECVE-2000-0333
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published1999-05-31 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 01:55:00 UTC
Descriptiontcpdump, 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.4 All All All
Application Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.5 All All All
Application Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.6 All All All
Application Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.4 All All All
Application Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.5 All All All
Application Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.6 All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.4 All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.5a All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.4 All All All
Application Lbl Tcpdump 3.5a All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Multiple Sniffer Vendor DNS Decode Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
20000502 Denial of service attack against tcpdump www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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