CVE-2007-6439

CVE Details

Release Date:

2007-12-19

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.

See more information about CVE-2007-6439 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	6.1	Base Metrics:	AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector:	Adjacent network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	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

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