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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.076 (94.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.076 · newest: 0.076 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Ethereal Group — versions 0.8.4, 0.8.5, 0.8.6
- Lbl Tcpdump — versions 3.4, 3.5a
References
- www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/1165 (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)