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CVE-2005-3244

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3244 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Ethereal versions 0.10.3 through 0.10.12, specifically within its BER dissector. This flaw, with a CVSS score of 5.0, allows remote attackers to trigger an infinite loop, leading to system unavailability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the vulnerability could be exploited remotely with low attack complexity.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0394 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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-2005-3244Low

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%3A9665
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 / 20127
redhat.com / archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-809.html
securityfocus.com / bid/15148