CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-3632

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Buffer overflow in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) versions 0.8.16 through 0.99.0. A remote attacker can exploit this via the NFS dissector, causing a denial of service and possibly executing arbitrary code.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability can lead to application crash or system compromise on hosts running Wireshark. The risk is especially high when analyzing network traffic from untrusted sources.

Recommendation

Update Wireshark to a version newer than 0.99.0 that includes the fix for this vulnerability. Avoid analyzing untrusted packet capture files with vulnerable versions.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in Wireshark (aka Ethereal) 0.8.16 to 0.99.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via the NFS dissector.

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