PT-2005-3276 · Ethereal+1 · Ethereal+1

Published 2005-08-10 · Updated 2024-02-14 · CVE-2005-2361

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ethereal versions 0.8.19 through 0.10.11

Description The issue concerns an unknown vulnerability in multiple dissectors of Ethereal, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This can result in the application crashing or aborting via unknown attack vectors.

Recommendations For Ethereal versions 0.8.19 through 0.10.11, consider disabling the affected dissectors, including AgentX, PER, DOCSIS, SCTP graphs, HTTP, DCERPC, DHCP, RADIUS, Telnet, IS-IS LSP, and NCP dissectors, until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-2361

DSA-853-1

RHSA-2005:687

RHSA-2005_687

Affected Products

Ethereal

Red Hat

References · 20

• http://ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00020.html · Patch
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-687.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2361 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2005/dsa-853 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-2365.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/14399 · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-2360.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-2361.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-2366.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-2364.html · Note
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-687.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-2362.html · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17102 · Note