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CVE-2007-6112

Buffer overflow in the PPP dissector Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Published

2007-11-23T20:46:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 10.0 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wireshark	wireshark	0.99.6	Yes

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199958 ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/27777 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/28197 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/28207 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/28288 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/28304 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/28325 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/28564 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/29048 ([email protected])
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml ([email protected])
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018988 ([email protected])
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0004 ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:001 ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:1 ([email protected])
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0058.html ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485792/100/0/threaded ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26532 Patch ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3956 ([email protected])
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html Patch ([email protected])
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1975 ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14561 ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9772 ([email protected])
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00606.html ([email protected])
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00712.html ([email protected])
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199958 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/27777 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/28197 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/28207 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/28288 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/28304 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/28325 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/28564 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/29048 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018988 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0004 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:001 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0058.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485792/100/0/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26532 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3956 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1975 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14561 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9772 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00606.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00712.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)