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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-08T05:14:21.442Z
Reserved: 2000-05-11T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2000-0333

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Status : Deferred
Published: 1999-05-31T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2000-0333

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