CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0401

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-06-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-06-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

SMB dissector in Ethereal 0.9.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via malformed packets that cause Ethereal to dereference a NULL pointer.

Affected configurations

• ethereal ethereal (<= 0.9.3) • debian debian linux 2.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References