CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-4805
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-10-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 0.9.8
• wireshark wireshark 0.9.10
• wireshark wireshark 0.10
• wireshark wireshark 0.10.4
• wireshark wireshark 0.10.13
• wireshark wireshark 0.99
• wireshark wireshark 0.99.1
• wireshark wireshark 0.99.2
• wireshark wireshark 0.99.3
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P patches.sgi.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22590 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22659 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22672 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22692 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22797 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22841 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22929 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23096 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017129 securitytracker.com
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-255.htm support.avaya.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/723736 US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:195 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_65_ethereal.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0726.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450307/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20762 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1201 www.us.debian.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4220 www.vupen.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2006-03.html www.wireshark.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29843 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-746 issues.rpath.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10199 oval.cisecurity.org
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P patches.sgi.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22590 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22659 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22672 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22692 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22797 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22841 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22929 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23096 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017129 securitytracker.com
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-255.htm support.avaya.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/723736 US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:195 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_65_ethereal.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0726.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450307/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20762 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1201 www.us.debian.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4220 www.vupen.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2006-03.html www.wireshark.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29843 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-746 issues.rpath.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10199 oval.cisecurity.org