CVE-2007-6439

Published Dec 19, 2007

Last updated a year ago

Overview

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.
Source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.1
Impact score: 6.9
Exploitability score: 6.5
Vector string: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-399

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "BB52B779-7A2D-43E0-9F12-C65053002EBC"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References