CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0001

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2003-01-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-01-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

Multiple ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) device drivers do not pad frames with null bytes, which allows remote attackers to obtain information from previous packets or kernel memory by using malformed packets, as demonstrated by Etherleak.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 4.2 • freebsd freebsd 4.3 • freebsd freebsd 4.4 • freebsd freebsd 4.5 • freebsd freebsd 4.6 • freebsd freebsd 4.7 • linux linux kernel 2.4.1 • linux linux kernel 2.4.2 • linux linux kernel 2.4.3 • linux linux kernel 2.4.4 • linux linux kernel 2.4.5 • linux linux kernel 2.4.6 • linux linux kernel 2.4.7 • linux linux kernel 2.4.8 • linux linux kernel 2.4.9 • linux linux kernel 2.4.10 • linux linux kernel 2.4.11 • linux linux kernel 2.4.12 • linux linux kernel 2.4.13 • linux linux kernel 2.4.14 • linux linux kernel 2.4.15 • linux linux kernel 2.4.16 • linux linux kernel 2.4.17 • linux linux kernel 2.4.18 • linux linux kernel 2.4.19 • linux linux kernel 2.4.20 • microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows 2000 terminal services • netbsd netbsd 1.5 • netbsd netbsd 1.5.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.5.2 • netbsd netbsd 1.5.3 • netbsd netbsd 1.6

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-226 Sensitive Information in Resource Not Removed Before Reuse weakness

References