CVE-2005-3184

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 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: none known
Published: 2005-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow vulnerability in the unicode_to_bytes in the Service Location Protocol (srvloc) dissector (packet-srvloc.c) in Ethereal allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a srvloc packet with a modified length value.

Affected products

Ethereal Group Ethereal: through 0.10.12

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17254
http://secunia.com/advisories/17286
http://secunia.com/advisories/17327
http://secunia.com/advisories/17377
http://secunia.com/advisories/17392
http://secunia.com/advisories/17480
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015082
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00021.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-25.xml
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=323&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html
http://www.osvdb.org/20137

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