PT-2005-4060 · Ethereal+1 · Ethereal+1

Published 2005-10-25 · Updated 2024-02-14 · CVE-2005-3246

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 0.10.12 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically a null dereference, via unknown vectors in the (1) SCSI, (2) sFlow, or (3) RTnet dissectors.

Recommendations For Ethereal versions 0.10.12 and earlier, consider disabling the SCSI, sFlow, or RTnet dissectors as a temporary workaround to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-3246

DSA-1171

RHSA-2005:809

RHSA-2005_809

Affected Products

Ethereal

Red Hat

References · 31

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-3246 · Security Note
• http://redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1171 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-25.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-809.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00021.html · Patch
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-3248.html · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015082 · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-3245.html · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10303 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17286 · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-3241.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-3246.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/15148 · Note