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CVE-2005-3245

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3245 describes an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability in the ONC RPC dissector of Ethereal versions 0.10.3 through 0.10.12. When the "Dissect unknown RPC program numbers" option is enabled, remote attackers can exploit this flaw to cause excessive memory consumption. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, primarily impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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
2.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0270 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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-0:0.10.13-1.EL3.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-3245Low

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
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11060
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 / 20129
redhat.com / archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-809.html
securityfocus.com / bid/15148