CVE-2002-0403 in Ethereal

Summary

DNS dissector in Ethereal before 0.9.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed packet that causes Ethereal to enter an infinite loop.

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• Disclosure: 06/18/2002
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-18252 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-400 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.3
• EPSS: 0.01824
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-0403
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-0403
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2002-0403/