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CVE-2005-3313

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3313 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the IRC protocol dissector of Ethereal version 0.10.13. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw to trigger an infinite loop, rendering the affected software unusable. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a network attack vector and low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.7.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0396 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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-0:0.10.14-1.EL3.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-3313Moderate

security flaw

Oct 23, 2005

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20060201-01-U
secunia.com / advisories/17370
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/17377
secunia.com / advisories/17480
secunia.com / advisories/18331
secunia.com / advisories/18426
secunia.com / advisories/18911
secunia.com / advisories/19130
secunia.com / advisories/19230
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10616
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00022.html
URL Repurposed
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-25.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-January/msg00005.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0156.html
securityfocus.com / bid/15219
Patch