Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2005-3243 in the critical feed json

Multiple buffer overflows in Ethereal 0.10.12 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors in the…

published 2005-10-27 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-3242

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.8%
EPSS 10.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in Ethereal 0.10.12 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors in the (1) SLIMP3 and (2) AgentX dissector.

Patch / fix

  • ethereal RHEL 3 0.10.13-1.EL3.1
  • ethereal-gnome RHEL 3 0.10.13-1.EL3.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:809

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-2005-3243 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 ethereal 0.10.13-1.EL3.1, ethereal-gnome 0.10.13-1.EL3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 ethereal 0.10.13-1.EL3.1, ethereal-gnome 0.10.13-1.EL3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 ethereal 0.10.13-1.EL3.1, ethereal-gnome 0.10.13-1.EL3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 ethereal 0.10.13-1.EL3.1, ethereal-gnome 0.10.13-1.EL3.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:809

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-1266)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

10.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-1266 Ethereal 0.9.1 < 0.10.12 SLIMP3 - Remote Buffer Overflow (PoC) dos, 2005-10-20

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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.