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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2005-0006 json

The COPS dissector in Ethereal 0.10.6 through 0.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop).

published 2005-01-29 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0007

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The COPS dissector in Ethereal 0.10.6 through 0.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop).

Patch / fix

  • ethereal RHEL 3 0.10.9-1.EL3.1
  • ethereal-gnome RHEL 3 0.10.9-1.EL3.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:011

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-2005-0006 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 ethereal 0.10.9-1.EL3.1, ethereal-gnome 0.10.9-1.EL3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 ethereal 0.10.9-1.EL3.1, ethereal-gnome 0.10.9-1.EL3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 ethereal 0.10.9-1.EL3.1, ethereal-gnome 0.10.9-1.EL3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 ethereal 0.10.9-1.EL3.1, ethereal-gnome 0.10.9-1.EL3.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:011

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Exploit prediction

3.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% 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.