CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-4574

7.5 HIGH Published 2006-10-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-10-28
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-193, CWE-617

Description

Off-by-one error in the MIME Multipart dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.1 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain vectors that trigger an assertion error related to unexpected length values.

Affected configurations

• wireshark wireshark (>= 0.10.1 <= 0.99.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness
  • CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness
  • CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness

References