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CVE-2004-1139

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1139 describes an unknown vulnerability within the DICOM dissector of Ethereal versions 0.10.4 through 0.10.7, impacting various Linux distributions. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by crashing the application. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a medium-severity issue, indicating network-based exploitation with low complexity leading to partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0243 is in the 74th 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ethereal-0:0.10.9-1.EL3.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-1139Moderate

security flaw

Dec 15, 2004

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/13468
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18484
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11319
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/p-061.shtml
PatchVendor Advisory
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00016.html
PatchVendor AdvisoryURL Repurposed
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-15.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-037.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/11943
PatchVendor Advisory