Off-by-one error in the DHCP/BOOTP dissector in Wireshark before 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via…

Description

Off-by-one error in the DHCP/BOOTP dissector in Wireshark before 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted DHCP-over-DOCSIS packets.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (23)

• 25833 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• wireshark-dhcpbootp-dos(35113) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 25877 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0059 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-02.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2007:0710 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 26499 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 25987 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 26004 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• GLSA-200708-12 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• RHSA-2007:0709 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• MDKSA-2007:145 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• 22588 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1018315 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1498 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 24662 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 28583 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-0.99.6.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 37639 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• ADV-2007-2353 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• DSA-1322 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2007:015 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11010 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2007-3393](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2007-3393.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2007-3393)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 14:14 UTC.