CVE-2005-3242: Ethereal Group Ethereal

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ethereal 0.10.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors in (1) the IrDA dissector and (2) the SMB dissector when SMB transaction payload reassembly is enabled.

Affected products

• Ethereal Group Ethereal: version 0.9.7 only; version 0.9.8 only; version 0.9.9 only; version 0.9.10 only; version 0.9.11 only; version 0.9.12 only; …

Published 2005-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.