CVE-2002-0822

HIGH 7.5CVE-2002-0822 · Published 12/08/2002 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2002-0822 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting ethereal (ethereal group).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 73.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ethereal ethereal_group	`≤ 0.9.4`	No fix yet

Description

Ethereal 0.9.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly excecute arbitrary code via the (1) SOCKS, (2) RSVP, (3) AFS, or (4) LMP dissectors, which can be caused to core dump.

References

ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/5167

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