National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2003-0001

Overview

Multiple ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) device drivers do not pad frames with null bytes, which allows remote attackers to obtain information from previous packets or kernel memory by using malformed packets, as demonstrated by Etherleak.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#412115

Name: VU#412115

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/412115

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2003:025

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-025.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/atstake_etherleak_report.pdf

Hyperlink:http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/atstake_etherleak_report.pdf

External Source: ATSTAKE

Name: A010603-1

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/a010603-1.txt

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20030110 More information regarding Etherleak

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104222046632243&w=2

External Source: VULNWATCH

Name: 20030110 More information regarding Etherleak

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0016.html

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20030117 Re: More information regarding Etherleak

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/307564/30/26270/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20030106 Etherleak: Ethernet frame padding information leakage (A010603-1)

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/305335/30/26420/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2003:088

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-088.html

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 9962

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/9962

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 7996

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/7996

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2665

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2665

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2665