CVE-2007-6114

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

Multiple buffer overflows in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.0 through 0.99.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) the SSL dissector or (2) the iSeries (OS/400) Communication trace file parser.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 0.99, 0.99.0, 0.99.1, 0.99.2, 0.99.3, 0.99.4 (+2)

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/27817
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/28583
http://secunia.com/advisories/29048

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