CVE-2002-0353

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-06-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The ASN.1 parser in Ethereal 0.9.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a certain malformed packet, which causes Ethereal to allocate memory incorrectly, possibly due to zero-length fields.

Affected products

Ethereal Group Ethereal: 0.9.1, 0.9.2

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000474
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-130
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00003.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8952.php
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-088.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4604
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000474
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-130
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00003.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8952.php
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-088.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4604

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