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CVE-2005-3184: Ethereal Group: Buffer overflow

CVE-2005-3184 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Ethereal Group. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Buffer overflow vulnerability in the unicode_to_bytes in the Service Location Protocol (srvloc) dissector (packet-srvloc.c) in Ethereal allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a srvloc packet with a modified length value.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • Ethereal Group: up to and including 0.10.12

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