CVE-2002-1356

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-12-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Ethereal 0.9.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via malformed packets to the (1) LMP, (2) PPP, or (3) TDS dissectors, possibly related to a missing field for EndVerifyAck messages.

Affected products

Ethereal Group Ethereal: through 0.9.7

References

http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
http://www.ethereal.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ethereal/packet-lmp.c#rev1.13
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-290.html
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
http://www.ethereal.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ethereal/packet-lmp.c#rev1.13
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-290.html

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