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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- ETHEREAL_GROUP
- Published
- 5/31/1999
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
ethereal_group : etherealethereal_group : etherealethereal_group : ethereallbl : tcpdumplbl : tcpdump
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