CVE-2006-4333

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-08-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The SSCOP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) before 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via malformed packets that cause the Q.2391 dissector to use excessive memory.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 0.10.4, 0.10.13, 0.99, 0.99.1, 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/21813
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.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1171
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/696896

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