CVE-2006-4333: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SSCOP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) before 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via malformed packets that cause the Q.2391 dissector to use excessive memory.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 0.10.4 only; version 0.10.13 only; version 0.99 only; version 0.99.1 only; version 0.99.2 only

Published 2006-08-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.