Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.8.16 to 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed RPC Portmap…

Description

Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.8.16 to 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed RPC Portmap packet.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (4 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
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (28)

• 27777 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1975 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 29048 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 26532 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 28564 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 20080103 rPSA-2008-0004-1 tshark wireshark (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• GLSA-200712-23 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0059 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 28304 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1018988 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• DSA-1414 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• FEDORA-2007-4690 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 28325 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• MDVSA-2008:1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11374 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• MDVSA-2008:001 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0058 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2008:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199958 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 28583 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2007-3956 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 28197 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 28288 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0004 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 28207 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2007-4590 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 27817 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 15:54 UTC.