Vulnerability in Wireshark

CVE-2007-6439

Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite or large loop) via the (1) IPv6 or (2) USB dissector, which can trigger resource consumption or a crash. NOTE: this identifier originally included Firebird/Interbase, but it is already covered by CVE-2007-6116. The DCP ETSI issue is already covered by CVE-2007-6119.

EPSS: 0.013 (67.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Wireshark — versions 0.99.6
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References