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CVE-2006-4333

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.4 · CWE-399
5.4CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

The SSCOP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) before 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via malformed packets that cause the Q.2391 dissector to use excessive memory.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://secunia.com/advisories/21597 ↗