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CVE-2003-0001
Multiple ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) device drivers do not pad frames with null bytes, which allows remote attackers to obtain…
Medium5.0EPSS 72.5%
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- Updated
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 72.5% · top 0.6% 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: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (15)
- 20030117 Re: More information regarding Etherleak (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1031583 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 9962 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:088 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20030110 More information regarding Etherleak (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- VU#412115 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 20030106 Etherleak: Ethernet frame padding information leakage (A010603-1) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2665 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20030110 More information regarding Etherleak (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:025 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 7996 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- A010603-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_ATSTAKEx_transferred
- 1040185 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/atstake_etherleak_report.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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 .