PT-2002-1419 · Ethereal · Ethereal

Published 2002-05-03 · Updated 2024-02-14 · CVE-2002-0353

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ethereal versions 0.9.2 and earlier

Description The issue is related to the ASN.1 parser, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a certain malformed packet. This occurs because Ethereal allocates memory incorrectly, possibly due to zero-length fields.

Recommendations For Ethereal versions 0.9.2 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-0353

Affected Products

Ethereal

References · 7

• http://debian.org/security/2002/dsa-130 · Vendor Advisory
• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000474 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-088.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-0353 · Security Note
• http://ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00003.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/4604 · Note
• http://iss.net/security_center/static/8952.php · Note