CVE-2002-0353

high

Description

The ASN.1 parser in Ethereal 0.9.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a certain malformed packet, which causes Ethereal to allocate memory incorrectly, possibly due to zero-length fields.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4604

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-088.html

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8952.php

http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00003.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-130

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000474

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-06-25

Updated: 2024-11-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High