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CVE-2005-3246

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3246 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Ethereal versions 0.10.12 and earlier. Remote attackers can exploit this flaw through unknown vectors within the SCSI, sFlow, or RTnet dissectors, leading to a null dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code or Metasploit modules are available. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal, suggesting a low level of public attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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-2005-3246Low

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%3A10303
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 / 20128
osvdb.org / 20130
osvdb.org / 20131
redhat.com / archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-809.html
securityfocus.com / bid/15148