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CVE-2006-3632

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-07-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in Wireshark (aka Ethereal) 0.8.16 to 0.99.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via the NFS dissector.

Affected products

• Ethereal Group Ethereal: 0.8.16, 0.8.17, 0.8.17a, 0.8.18, 0.8.19, 0.8.20 (+35)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0602.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21078
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21107
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21121
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21204
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21249
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21467
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21488
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21598
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22089
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200607-09.xml

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