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CVE-2006-4805: wireshark

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2006-4805
Published 27-10-2006Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-4805 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in wireshark. EPSS estimates a 4.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
21/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
4.51%
0%100%
Low · +0.34 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 1
DSA-1201-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11513-1RHSA-2006:0726

Timeline

  1. 27-10-2006
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-xot.c in the XOT dissector (dissect_xot_pdu) in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.8 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via an encoded XOT packet that produces a zero length value when it is decoded.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

4.51%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

91%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.34 pp

From 4.17% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
4.51%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • wireshark< 0.99.4-1
Wireshark1 product
  • wireshark0.9.8 | 0.9.10 | 0.10 | 0.10.4 | 0.10.13 | 0.99 | 0.99.1 | 0.99.2 | 0.99.3

2 vendors · 2 products

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