Vulnerability in Ethereal Group

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.

EPSS: 0.076 (93.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Ethereal_group Ethereal — versions 0.8.4, 0.8.5, 0.8.6
Lbl Tcpdump — versions 3.4, 3.5a
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)