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CVE-2007-6439 Detail

Current 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:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  12/19/2007
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Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.1 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.9
Exploitability Subscore: 6.5


Access Vector (AV): Local_Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink Resource
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199958
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html
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

References to Check Content

Identifier:
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10331
Check System:
http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10331

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)

Vulnerable software and versions Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1
OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-6439
NVD Published Date:
12/19/2007
NVD Last Modified:
10/15/2018