5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.018 Low
EPSS
Percentile
88.2%
Wireshark contains a vulnerability in the DHCP dissector that may cause a denial-of-service condition.
Wireshark for Microsoft Windows contains a vulnerability in the DHCP dissector that may cause a denial-of-service condition. This vulnerability may be exploited when the remote attacker sends a specially crafted, malformed packet or by convincing the user to read a malformed packet trace file.
Wireshark states that Wireshark versions 0.7.9 up to and including 0.99.2 are vulnerable.
Note: Ethereal has changed its name to Wireshark.
A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service condition.
Update
Wireshark has released an updated product version (Wireshark 0.99.3).
Workaround
Wireshark provides a workaround in security document wnpa-sec-2006-02.
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Updated: October 12, 2006
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We have not received a statement from the vendor.
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
Please see Wireshark security document wnpa-sec-2006-02 for further information.
If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23335656 Feedback>).
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This vulnerability was reported in Wireshark document wnpa-sec-2006-02.
This document was written by Katie Steiner.
CVE IDs: | CVE-2006-4332 |
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Severity Metric: | 3.04 Date Public: |
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