PT-2003-1622 · Ethereal · Ethereal

Published 2003-06-18 · Updated 2024-02-14 · CVE-2003-0431

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Ethereal versions 0.9.12 and earlier

Description: The tvb get nstringz0 function does not properly handle a zero-length buffer size, which may have unknown consequences.

Recommendations: For Ethereal versions 0.9.12 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-0431

DSA-324

Affected Products

Ethereal

References · 8

• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000662 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-077.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0431 · Security Note
• http://ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html · Vendor Advisory
• ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2003-030.0.txt · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2003/dsa-324 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/9007 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A101 · Note