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CVE-2007-6121

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% 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-20

Description

Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.8.16 to 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed RPC Portmap packet.

Affected products

• Ethereal Group Ethereal: 0.8.16, 0.8.17, 0.8.17a, 0.8.18, 0.8.19, 0.8.20 (+36)
• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 0.8.16, 0.9.8, 0.9.10, 0.99, 0.99.0, 0.99.1 (+5)

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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