CVE-2007-6112

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 0.99.6

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199958
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27777
http://secunia.com/advisories/28197
http://secunia.com/advisories/28207
http://secunia.com/advisories/28288
http://secunia.com/advisories/28304
http://secunia.com/advisories/28325
http://secunia.com/advisories/28564
http://secunia.com/advisories/29048
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018988

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