CVE-2005-2363

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-08-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unknown vulnerability in the (1) SMPP dissector, (2) 802.3 dissector, (3) DHCP, (4) MEGACO dissector, or (5) H1 dissector in Ethereal 0.8.15 through 0.10.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via unknown attack vectors.

Affected products

Ethereal Group Ethereal: 0.8.15, 0.8.16, 0.8.17, 0.8.18, 0.8.19, 0.8.20 (+29)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/16225/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17102
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-853
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00020.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-27.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-687.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14399
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11271
http://secunia.com/advisories/16225/

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