Vulnerability in Wireshark

CVE-2006-4333

The SSCOP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) before 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via malformed packets that cause the Q.2391 dissector to use excessive memory.

EPSS: 0.039 (89.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Wireshark — versions 0.10.4, 0.10.13, 0.99
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References