CVE-2003-0081 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2003-0081 at MITRE

Description

Format string vulnerability in packet-socks.c of the SOCKS dissector for Ethereal 0.8.7 through 0.9.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via SOCKS packets containing format string specifiers.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

SuSE-SA:2003:019, published Friday, Mar 21th 2003 10:12 MET

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:16:42 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:33 2025