CVE-2007-6112

critical

Description

Buffer overflow in the PPP dissector Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00712.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00606.html

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9772

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14561

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1975

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3956

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26532

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485792/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0058.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:1

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:001

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0004

http://securitytracker.com/id?1018988

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/29048

http://secunia.com/advisories/28564

http://secunia.com/advisories/28325

http://secunia.com/advisories/28304

http://secunia.com/advisories/28288

http://secunia.com/advisories/28207

http://secunia.com/advisories/28197

http://secunia.com/advisories/27777

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199958

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-11-23

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical