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CVE-2004-0506

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0506 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Ethereal versions 0.9.8 through 0.10.3, as well as SGI's Ethereal and ProPack distributions. This flaw, rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, allows remote attackers to crash the dissector via unknown attack vectors leading to a null pointer dereference. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:propack:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:propack:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0393 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ethereal-0:0.10.3-0.30E.2
View patch
gentoovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0506Low

security flaw

May 13, 2004

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20040604-01-U.asc
patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20040605-01-U.asc
distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
secunia.com / advisories/11608
secunia.com / advisories/11776
secunia.com / advisories/11836
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200406-01.xml
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16151
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9695
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A987
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/o-150.shtml
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00014.html
URL Repurposed
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-234.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/10347
PatchVendor Advisory