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CVE-2004-1142

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1142 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Ethereal versions 0.9.0 through 0.10.7, affecting various Linux distributions. A remote attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted SMB packet, leading to excessive CPU consumption on the vulnerable system. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is moderately severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

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
82.6%
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 (2)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
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-2004-1142Moderate

security flaw

Dec 15, 2004

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/13468
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18488
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11278
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/p-061.shtml
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-613
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