CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0403

5.0 MEDIUM 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 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

DNS dissector in Ethereal before 0.9.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed packet that causes Ethereal to enter an infinite loop.

Affected configurations

• ethereal group ethereal 0.9.1 • ethereal group ethereal 0.9.2 • ethereal group ethereal 0.9.3 • ethereal group ethereal 0.9 .0

References