Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2000-0333
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
7.58%
Original Filing — NVD 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.