CVE-2006-4805: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

epan/dissectors/packet-xot.c in the XOT dissector (dissect_xot_pdu) in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.8 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via an encoded XOT packet that produces a zero length value when it is decoded.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 0.9.8 only; version 0.9.10 only; version 0.10 only; version 0.10.4 only; version 0.10.13 only; version 0.99 only; …

Published 2006-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.