CVE-2007-6439

high

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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15002

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10331

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1975

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39181

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39180

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2007-6405

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27071

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485792/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0058.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:1

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:001

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0004

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/29048

http://secunia.com/advisories/28564

http://secunia.com/advisories/28325

http://secunia.com/advisories/28304

http://secunia.com/advisories/28288

http://secunia.com/advisories/27777

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199958

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-12-19

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00875