CVE-2007-6450

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-12-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The RPL dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.8 to 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 0.9.8, 0.99, 0.99.0, 0.99.1, 0.99.2, 0.99.3 (+3)

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/28315
http://secunia.com/advisories/28325
http://secunia.com/advisories/28564
http://secunia.com/advisories/28583
http://secunia.com/advisories/29048
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0004

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