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
0.015 Low
EPSS
Percentile
86.8%
Wireshark contains a vulnerability in the HTTP dissector that may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition.
Wireshark contains a vulnerability in the HTTP dissector that may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition. This vulnerability may be triggered when a remote attacker sends a specially crafted, malformed packet to a vulnerable Wireshark installation or by convincing the user to read a malformed packet trace file with Wireshark.
Wireshark states that Wireshark version 0.99.3 is affected.
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 0.99.4).
Workaround
Wireshark provides a workaround in security document wnpa-sec-2006-03.
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Updated: November 06, 2006
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The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
Please see Wireshark security document wnpa-sec-2006-03 for further information.
If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23363992 Feedback>).
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This vulnerability was reported in Wireshark Document wnpa-sec-2006-03.
This document was written by Katie Steiner.
CVE IDs: | CVE-2006-5468 |
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Severity Metric: | 11.39 Date Public: |