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CVE-2004-1141

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1141 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the HTTP dissector of Ethereal versions 0.10.1 through 0.10.7. A remote attacker can trigger an application crash by sending a specially crafted packet that causes the dissector to access previously freed memory. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, suggesting awareness despite its age.

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0249 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-2004-1141Moderate

security flaw

Dec 15, 2004

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
secunia.com / advisories/13468
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18487
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9473
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/p-061.shtml
Vendor Advisory
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00016.html
Vendor AdvisoryURL Repurposed
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-15.xml
Patch
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-037.html
securityfocus.com / bid/11943
Patch