CVE-2003-0431

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2003-0431 · Published 24/07/2003 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2003-0431 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting ethereal (ethereal group).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.3%, higher than 83.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ethereal ethereal_group	`≤ 0.9.12`	No fix yet

The tvb_get_nstringz0 function in Ethereal 0.9.12 and earlier does not properly handle a zero-length buffer size, with unknown consequences.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

≤ 0.9.12

No fix yet

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