CVE-2007-6439

CVE Details

Release Date:	2007-12-19
Impact:	Low	What is this?

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	6.1
Vector String:	AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Adjacent Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (libsmi)	ELSA-2008-0058	2008-01-22
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (wireshark)	ELSA-2008-0058	2008-01-22
Oracle Linux version 5 (libsmi)	ELSA-2008-0058	2008-01-22
Oracle Linux version 5 (wireshark)	ELSA-2008-0058	2008-01-22