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CVE-2002-0401
SMB dissector in Ethereal 0.9.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via…
High7.5EPSS 5.5%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.5% · top 7.2% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- CLSA-2002:505 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:088 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-130 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20020529 Potential security issues in Ethereal (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ethereal-smb-dissector-dos(9204) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00004.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 4806 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:036 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .