CVE-2006-4331

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-08-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple off-by-one errors in the IPSec ESP preference parser in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 0.99.2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/21597
http://secunia.com/advisories/21619
http://secunia.com/advisories/21649
http://secunia.com/advisories/21682
http://secunia.com/advisories/21885
http://secunia.com/advisories/22378
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-26.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016736
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-227.htm
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/638376
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:152
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0658.html

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