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CVE-2007-6117: wireshark

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2007-6117
Published 23-11-2007Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-6117 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in wireshark. EPSS estimates a 3.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88.6% 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
3.40%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Duplicates 1
DSA-1414-1DTSA-92-1RHSA-2008:0058RHSA-2008:0059CVE-2007-6445

Timeline

  1. 23-11-2007
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the HTTP dissector for Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.14 to 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted chunked messages.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

3.40%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

89%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.40% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
3.40%

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< 0.99.7~pre1-1
Wireshark1 product
  • wireshark0.10.14 | 0.99 | 0.99.0 | 0.99.1 | 0.99.2 | 0.99.3 | 0.99.4 | 0.99.5 | 0.99.6

2 vendors · 2 products

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