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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.1 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2007-12-19

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-399

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/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://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/27071
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39180
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39181
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1975
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10331
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15002