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CVE-2005-0739

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

The IAPP dissector (packet-iapp.c) for Ethereal 0.9.1 to 0.10.9 does not properly use certain routines for formatting strings, which could leave it vulnerable to buffer overflows, as demonstrated using modified length values that are not properly handled by the dissect_pdus and pduval_to_str functions.

Affected products

• Ethereal Group Ethereal: through 0.10.9

References

• http://anonsvn.ethereal.com/viewcvs/viewcvs.py?view=rev&rev=13707
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111066805726551&w=2
• http://security.lss.hr/index.php?page=details&ID=LSS-2005-03-05
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-718
• http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00018.html
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-16.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:053
• http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-306.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12762
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9687
• http://anonsvn.ethereal.com/viewcvs/viewcvs.py?view=rev&rev=13707

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