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CVE-2005-3241

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3241 describes multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Ethereal versions 0.10.12 and earlier, specifically within its ISAKMP, FC-FCS, RSVP, and ISIS LSP dissectors. These flaws allow remote attackers to consume excessive memory, leading to a denial of service. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.8.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0391 is in the 86th 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-0:0.10.13-1.EL3.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-3241Low

security flaw

Oct 19, 2005

References

secunia.com / advisories/17254
secunia.com / advisories/17286
secunia.com / advisories/17327
secunia.com / advisories/17377
secunia.com / advisories/17392
secunia.com / advisories/17480
secunia.com / advisories/21813
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10582
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1171
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00021.html
PatchURL Repurposed
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-25.xml
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html
osvdb.org / 20121
osvdb.org / 20122
osvdb.org / 20123
osvdb.org / 20124
redhat.com / archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-809.html
securityfocus.com / bid/15148