CVE-2005-0084: Ethereal Group Ethereal

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the X11 dissector in Ethereal 0.8.10 through 0.10.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet.

Affected products

• Ethereal Group Ethereal: version 0.8 only; version 0.8.13 only; version 0.8.14 only; version 0.8.15 only; version 0.8.16 only; version 0.8.17a only; …

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.