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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 25, 2002· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2002-0353

CVE-2002-0353

Description

The ASN.1 parser in Ethereal 0.9.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a certain malformed packet, which causes Ethereal to allocate memory incorrectly, possibly due to zero-length fields.

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Affected products

3
  • Ethereal Group/Ethereal3 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: <=0.9.2

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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