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CVE-2005-0704

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0704 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Etheric dissector of Ethereal versions 0.10.7 through 0.10.9. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (application crash) and potentially execute arbitrary code. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0370 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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-0:0.10.10-1.EL3.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0704Moderate

security flaw

Mar 11, 2005

References

oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10447
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00018.html
Vendor AdvisoryURL Repurposed
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-16.xml
Patch
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-306.html
securityfocus.com / bid/12762