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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2004-0635 json

The SNMP dissector in Ethereal 0.8.15 through 0.10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a (1) malform…

published 2004-07-08 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0634

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.3%
EPSS 5.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The SNMP dissector in Ethereal 0.8.15 through 0.10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a (1) malformed or (2) missing community string, which causes an out-of-bounds read.

Patch / fix

  • ethereal RHEL 3 0.10.5-0.30E.2
  • ethereal-gnome RHEL 3 0.10.5-0.30E.2

red hat advisories RHSA-2004:378

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2004-0635 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 ethereal 0.10.5-0.30E.2, ethereal-gnome 0.10.5-0.30E.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 ethereal 0.10.5-0.30E.2, ethereal-gnome 0.10.5-0.30E.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 ethereal 0.10.5-0.30E.2, ethereal-gnome 0.10.5-0.30E.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 ethereal 0.10.5-0.30E.2, ethereal-gnome 0.10.5-0.30E.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:378

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Exploit prediction

5.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Fix old broken CPEs.