Denial of Service Vulnerability in Ethereal 0.9.2 and Earlier Due to ASN.1 Parser

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Ethereal 0.9.2 and Earlier Due to ASN.1 Parser

CVE-2002-0353 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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