CVE-2004-0635

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The SNMP dissector in Ethereal 0.8.15 through 0.10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a (1) malformed or (2) missing community string, which causes an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

Ethereal Group Ethereal: 0.8.15, 0.8.16, 0.8.17, 0.8.18, 0.8.19, 0.9 (+21)
gentoo Linux: all versions
Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: 9.2, 10.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1, 3.0
RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation: 2.1

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127381
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000916
http://secunia.com/advisories/12024
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010655
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-528
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00015.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200407-08.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/835846
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004:067
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-July/msg00013.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-July/msg00014.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-378.html

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