CVE-2002-0401 describes a denial-of-service or arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the SMB dissector of Ethereal 0.9.3 and earlier, affecting Debian Linux distributions. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.5) allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to crash the application or execute code by sending specially crafted, malformed packets that cause a NULL pointer dereference. While there is no known active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential interest.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ethereal:ethereal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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