Description
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: 2007-12-19
Score: 6.1 Medium
EPSS: 1.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
AI Analysis

Analysis and contextual insights are available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

Additional remediation guidance may be available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Tracking

Sign in to view the affected projects.

Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-6405 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.
History

No history.

Subscriptions

Redhat Enterprise Linux
Wireshark Wireshark
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:02:36.928Z

Reserved: 2007-12-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-6439

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-12-19T22:46:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-6439

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2007-12-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-6439 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses