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CVE-2005-0010

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0010 describes an unknown vulnerability within the MMSE dissector of Ethereal versions 0.10.4 through 0.10.8. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by causing a free of statically allocated memory. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it represents a medium-severity issue, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity to achieve 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
0.10.4CPE 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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
2.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0248 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 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-2005-0010Moderate

security flaw

Jan 19, 2005

References

secunia.com / advisories/13946
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/19003
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9521
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/p-106.shtml
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00017.html
URL Repurposed
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-27.xml
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
securityfocus.com / bid/12326