CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-3630

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Multiple off-by-one errors exist in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) versions 0.9.7 through 0.99.0 within the NCP NMAS and NDPS dissectors. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely, but the exact impact is unknown.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to cause unspecified effects, potentially leading to application crashes or code execution. Organizations using vulnerable Wireshark versions for network traffic analysis are at risk.

Recommendation

Update Wireshark to a version later than 0.99.0, which contains fixes for these errors. If updating is not possible, consider limiting the use of vulnerable versions to analyzing trusted data only.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Multiple off-by-one errors in Wireshark (aka Ethereal) 0.9.7 to 0.99.0 have unknown impact and remote attack vectors via the (1) NCP NMAS and (2) NDPS dissectors.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS