VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2002-0401

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability5.51%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2002-06-18
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

SMB dissector in Ethereal 0.9.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via malformed packets that cause Ethereal to dereference a NULL pointer.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references