VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2000-0333

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability7.58%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published1999-05-31
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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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