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CVE-2004-0176

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0176 describes multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Ethereal versions 0.8.13 through 0.10.2, affecting various network protocol dissectors. These flaws allow remote attackers to trigger a denial of service and potentially execute arbitrary code. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it indicates a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily leading to availability impact. While not on the KEV catalog or Hot List, exploit code for specific dissectors like IGAP and EIGRP is publicly available, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.8.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
67.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-167 · Mar 28, 2004
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6709 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ethereal-0:0.10.3-0.30E.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0176

security flaw

Mar 4, 2004

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/11185
security.e-matters.de / advisories/032004.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200403-07.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15569
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10187
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A878
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A887
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-511
PatchVendor Advisory
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00013.html
URL Repurposed
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/119876
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/125156
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/433596
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/591820
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/644886
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/659140
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/740188
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/864884
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/931588
US Government Resource
mandriva.com / security/advisories
osvdb.org / 6893
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-136.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-137.html