CVE-2002-1356: Ethereal Group Ethereal

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ethereal 0.9.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via malformed packets to the (1) LMP, (2) PPP, or (3) TDS dissectors, possibly related to a missing field for EndVerifyAck messages.

Affected products

• Ethereal Group Ethereal: up to and including 0.9.7

Published 2002-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.