CVE-2003-0927: Ethereal Group Ethereal

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Ethereal 0.9.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via the SOCKS dissector.

Affected products

• Ethereal Group Ethereal: version 0.9 only; version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.9.3 only; version 0.9.4 only; version 0.9.5 only; …

Published 2003-12-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.