CVE-2000-0333

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1999-05-31 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2000-0333, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

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.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-2000-0333

CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P