CVE-2007-6121
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.0%EU EUVD
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.8.16 to 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed RPC Portmap packet.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 2.0% (81th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-6090)
- Published
- November 23, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-6090 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ethereal group / ethereal
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- ethereal group / ethereal
- ethereal group / ethereal
- ethereal group / ethereal
- ethereal group / ethereal
- ethereal group / ethereal
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
and 3 more…
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199958
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27777(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27817(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28197(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28207(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28288(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28304
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28325(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28564(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28583(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29048(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018988
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0004
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1414
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:001
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:1
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0058.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0059.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485792/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26532(Patch)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3956
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html(Patch)
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1975
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11374
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00606.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00712.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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