CVE-2005-3249

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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

Unspecified vulnerability in the WSP dissector in Ethereal 0.10.1 to 0.10.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or corrupt memory via unknown vectors that cause Ethereal to free an invalid pointer.

Affected products

Ethereal Group Ethereal: 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.10.3, 0.10.4, 0.10.5, 0.10.6 (+6)

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.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html
http://www.osvdb.org/20136
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html

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