CVE-2007-6439
Wireshark Denial of Service Remote Vulnerability
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.
INFO
Published Date :
Dec. 19, 2007, 10:46 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 9, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
6.9
Exploitability Score :
6.5
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199958 Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/27777 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28288 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28304 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28325 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28564 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/29048 Added Reference http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml Added Reference http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0004 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:001 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:1 Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0058.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485792/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27071 Added Reference http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39180 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39181 Added Reference https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1975 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10331 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15002 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Nov. 07, 2023
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed 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. 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. -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Feb. 13, 2023
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed 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. 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. -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 15, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/485792/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485792/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10331 [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15002 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15002 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10331 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 08, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/39180 [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/39181 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39181 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39180 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Dec. 20, 2007
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2007-6439 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2007-6439
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.88 }} -0.12%
score
0.73182
percentile