CVE-2005-1461: Ethereal Group Ethereal

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 7.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) SIP, (2) CMIP, (3) CMP, (4) CMS, (5) CRMF, (6) ESS, (7) OCSP, (8) X.509, (9) ISIS, (10) DISTCC, (11) FCELS, (12) Q.931, (13) NCP, (14) TCAP, (15) ISUP, (16) MEGACO, (17) PKIX1Explitit, (18) PKIX_Qualified, (19) Presentation dissectors in Ethereal before 0.10.11 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code.

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 0.8.18 only; version 0.8.19 only; …

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