CVE-2002-0401

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-06-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: 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 products

Debian Linux: 2.2
Ethereal: through 0.9.3

References

http://distro.conectiva.com/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000505
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102268626526119&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-130
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00004.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9204.php
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-036.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-088.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4806
http://distro.conectiva.com/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000505
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102268626526119&w=2

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