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CVE-2003-1013

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-1013 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the Q.931 dissector in Ethereal versions prior to 0.10.0 and Tethereal. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending a specially crafted, malformed Q.931 packet, leading to a null dereference and causing the application to crash. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a severe impact on availability with no user interaction required for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal:ethereal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0272 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ethereal-0:0.10.0a-0.30E.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-1013Low

security flaw

Dec 12, 2003

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20040103-01-U.asc
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patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20040202-01-U.asc
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distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
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secunia.com / advisories/10531
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secunia.com / advisories/10568
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secunia.com / advisories/10570
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oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10097
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oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A857
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debian.org / security/2003/dsa-407
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ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00012.html
Broken LinkPatchVendor AdvisoryURL Repurposed
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-001.html
Broken LinkPatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-002.html
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