CVE-2007-6451

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% 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-399

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the CIP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.14 to 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger allocation of large amounts of memory.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 0.9.8, 0.9.14, 0.99, 0.99.0, 0.99.1, 0.99.2 (+4)

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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