CVE-2002-0404 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the GIOP dissector of Ethereal versions prior to 0.9.3. Remote attackers can exploit this flaw to cause excessive memory consumption, leading to a system crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity. It is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and requires no authentication, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, nor is public exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite its age, the CVE has garnered some community discussion, with 10 mentions, primarily on GitHub.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9_.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9_.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.