CVE-2003-0081 (GCVE-0-2003-0081)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-09-01 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:43
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
13 references
Date Public
2003-03-08 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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