CVE-2003-0432

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2003-0432 · Published 24/07/2003 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2003-0432 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

Description

Ethereal 0.9.12 and earlier does not handle certain strings properly, with unknown consequences, in the (1) BGP, (2) WTP, (3) DNS, (4) 802.11, (5) ISAKMP, (6) WSP, (7) CLNP, (8) ISIS, and (9) RMI dissectors.

References

ftp.sco.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2003-030.0.txt
distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes
secunia.com/advisories/9007
debian.org/security/2003/dsa-324 · Patch
ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html · Patch
redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-077.html
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A106

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

ethereal

ethereal_group

≤ 0.9.12

No fix yet

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