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CVE-2005-2360

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2360 describes an unknown vulnerability in the LDAP dissector of Ethereal versions 0.8.5 through 0.10.11. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service, specifically a crash due to freeing static memory. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0238 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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-0:0.10.12-1.EL3.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-2360Low

security flaw

Jul 27, 2005

References

secunia.com / advisories/16225
secunia.com / advisories/17102
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11254
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-853
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00020.html
PatchURL Repurposed
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-27.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-687.html
securityfocus.com / bid/14399