CVE-2003-0356

high-risk
Published 2003-06-09

Multiple off-by-one vulnerabilities in Ethereal 0.9.11 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via the (1) AIM, (2) GIOP Gryphon, (3) OSPF, (4) PPTP, (5) Quake, (6) Quake2, (7) Quake3, (8) Rsync, (9) SMB, (10) SMPP, and (11) TSP dissectors, which do not properly use the tvb_get_nstringz and tvb_get_nstringz0 functions.

Do I need to act?

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28.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 72% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Ethereal

References (12)

Broken Link http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-313
Broken Link http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/641013
Third Party Advisory http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:067
Broken Link http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-077.html
Broken Link https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3...
Broken Link http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-313
Broken Link http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/641013
Third Party Advisory http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:067
Broken Link http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-077.html
Broken Link https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3...
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 15/34 · Moderate
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal