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CVE-2003-0927 — HIGH severity vulnerability (Heap-based buffer overflow in Ethereal 0.9.15 and earlier al)

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.

CVE IDCVE-2003-0927
SeverityHIGH
CVSS score7.5
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2003-12-01
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionHeap-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.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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