CVE-2006-4574: Wireshark

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one error in the MIME Multipart dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.1 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain vectors that trigger an assertion error related to unexpected length values.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: from 0.10.1, up to and including 0.99.3

Published 2006-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.