CVE-2007-6441

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-12-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The WiMAX dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors related to "unaligned access on some platforms."

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/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://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0004
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:001
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:1

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