CVE-2004-1142: Altlinux Alt Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ethereal 0.9.0 through 0.10.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a certain malformed SMB packet.

Affected products

• Altlinux Alt Linux: version 2.3 only
• Conectiva Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.0 only
• Ethereal Group Ethereal: version 0.9 only; version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.9.3 only; version 0.9.4 only; version 0.9.5 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 2.1 only; version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation: version 2.1 only
• Sgi Propack: version 3.0 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 8.0 only; version 8.1 only; version 8.2 only; version 9.0 only; version 9.1 only; version 9.2 only

Published 2004-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.