Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting wireshark package, versions [0.7.9,0.99.3]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.73% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318503
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed28 Oct 2006
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Oct 2006

CVE-2006-4574  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for wireshark.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Off-by-one error in the MIME Multipart dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.1 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain vectors that trigger an assertion error related to unexpected length values.

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