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CVE-2005-0006

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0006 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the COPS dissector of Ethereal versions 0.10.6 through 0.10.8, allowing remote attackers to trigger an infinite loop. 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. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.10.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0364 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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-2005-0006Moderate

security flaw

Jan 19, 2005

References

secunia.com / advisories/13946
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18999
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10801
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/p-106.shtml
Vendor Advisory
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00017.html
PatchURL Repurposed
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-27.xml
Vendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-011.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-037.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/12326