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CVE-2005-3249

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3249 describes an unspecified vulnerability in the WSP dissector of Ethereal versions 0.10.1 through 0.10.12. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or memory corruption by causing Ethereal to free an invalid pointer through unknown vectors. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.4, indicating a medium severity. It is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity and requires no authentication, potentially leading to partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there any known public exploit codes or Metasploit modules. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal, suggesting low public attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0269 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-2005-3249Low

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%3A9313
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00021.html
Vendor AdvisoryURL Repurposed
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-25.xml
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html
osvdb.org / 20136
redhat.com / archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-809.html
securityfocus.com / bid/15148