Buffer overflow in Ethereal 0.9.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 32/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 5.8% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 92.9% of all records.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- Fixed version: ethereal (Debian:3.0) 0.9.4-1woody6; ethereal (Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as) 0:0.9.16-0.30E.1; ethereal-gnome (Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as) 0:0.9.16-0.30E.1.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to ethereal (Debian:3.0) 0.9.4-1woody6; ethereal (Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as) 0:0.9.16-0.30E.1; ethereal-gnome (Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as) 0:0.9.16-0.30E.1 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Buffer overflow in Ethereal 0.9.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed GTP MSISDN string.
- Published
- Dec 1, 2003
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 5.8% · 93th percentile
- CWE
- —
Report tools
Action score
32
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 2 / 30 · 5.8%
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| ethereal group | ethereal | cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- ethereal group ethereal0.9
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.1
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.10
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.11
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.12
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.13
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.14
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.15
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.2
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.3
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.4
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.5
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.6
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.7
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.8
- ethereal group ethereal0.9.9
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:3.0 | ethereal | before 0.9.4-1woody6 | 0.9.4-1woody6 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | ethereal | before 0:0.9.16-0.30E.1 | 0:0.9.16-0.30E.1 |
| Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | ethereal-gnome | before 0:0.9.16-0.30E.1 | 0:0.9.16-0.30E.1 |
Same product
ethereal group: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2006-3632Buffer overflow in Wireshark (aka Ethereal) 0.8.16 to 0.99.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbit42Plan
- CVE-2005-3184Buffer overflow vulnerability in the unicode_to_bytes in the Service Location Protocol (srvloc) dissector (packet-srvloc.c) in Ethereal allo42Plan
- CVE-2004-0507Buffer overflow in the MMSE dissector for Ethereal 0.10.1 to 0.10.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execut42Plan
- CVE-2006-1932Off-by-one error in the OID printing routine in Ethereal 0.10.x up to 0.10.14 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.41Plan
- CVE-2003-0432Ethereal 0.9.12 and earlier does not handle certain strings properly, with unknown consequences, in the (1) BGP, (2) WTP, (3) DNS, (4) 802.141Plan
- CVE-2003-0431The tvb_get_nstringz0 function in Ethereal 0.9.12 and earlier does not properly handle a zero-length buffer size, with unknown consequences.41Plan
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| debian:ethereal | 0.9.4-1woody6 · Debian:3.0 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:ethereal | 0:0.9.16-0.30E.1 · Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:ethereal-gnome | 0:0.9.16-0.30E.1 · Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- P · data can be read
- Integrity
- P · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- P · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Confidentiality impact
- P
- Integrity impact
- P
- Availability impact
- P
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
nvd-primary
Attack context
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Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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- secunia.com/advisories/10531
- www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-407
- www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00011.html
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:114
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-323.html
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-324.html
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/8951
- www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-64.txt
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9692
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.