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CVE-2007-6439 (GCVE-0-2007-6439)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-12-19 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:02
VLAI
Summary
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite or large loop) via the (1) IPv6 or (2) USB dissector, which can trigger resource consumption or a crash. NOTE: this identifier originally included Firebird/Interbase, but it is already covered by CVE-2007-6116. The DCP ETSI issue is already covered by CVE-2007-6119.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/27777 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1975 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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http://secunia.com/advisories/28564 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://secunia.com/advisories/28325 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-00… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199958 x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27071 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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Date Public
2007-12-18 00:00
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    "redhat_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "Low",
      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T13:17:57+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2007-6439",
      "id": "CVE-2007-6439",
      "initial_release_date": "2007-12-18T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:fixed": "266",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
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      "version": "3"
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      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2025-07-08T00:33:49Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2007-6439",
      "id": "CVE-2007-6439",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:09:49Z",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2007-6439",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2007-6439.json",
      "version": "5"
    }
  }
}



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