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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.013 (69.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 69.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wireshark — versions 0.99.6
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15002 (signature, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/27777 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1975
- secunia.com/advisories/29048 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html
- secunia.com/advisories/28564 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485792/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28304 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39180 (vdb-entry)