CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
82.1%
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.
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
ethereal_group | ethereal | 0.8.4 | cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
ethereal_group | ethereal | 0.8.5 | cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
ethereal_group | ethereal | 0.8.6 | cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
lbl | tcpdump | 3.4 | cpe:2.3:a:lbl:tcpdump:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
lbl | tcpdump | 3.5a | cpe:2.3:a:lbl:tcpdump:3.5a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |