CVE-2007-6112

Buffer overflow in the PPP dissector Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Score

CVSS 2.0 10.0 Critical

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2007-11-23

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Wireshark (Wireshark)

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199958
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27777
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28197
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28207
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28288
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28304
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28325
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28564
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29048
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1018988
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0004
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:001
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:1
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0058.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485792/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26532
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3956
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1975
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14561
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9772
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00606.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00712.html