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CVE-2005-3244

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-10-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The BER dissector in Ethereal 0.10.3 to 0.10.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Ethereal Group Ethereal: 0.10.3, 0.10.4, 0.10.5, 0.10.6, 0.10.7, 0.10.8 (+4)

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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