CVE-2000-0333 Information

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.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1165 http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=Pine.SOL.4.10.10005021942380.2077-100000@paranoia.pgci.ca