CVE-2005-3242

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-10-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Ethereal 0.10.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors in (1) the IrDA dissector and (2) the SMB dissector when SMB transaction payload reassembly is enabled.

Affected products

Ethereal Group Ethereal: 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, 0.9.10, 0.9.11, 0.9.12 (+17)

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://secunia.com/advisories/21813
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015082
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1171
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00021.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-25.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html

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