CVE-2007-6118: Ethereal Group Ethereal

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The MEGACO dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.14 to 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (long loop and resource consumption) via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Ethereal Group Ethereal: version 0.9.14 only; version 0.9.15 only; version 0.9.16 only; version 0.99.0 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: version 0.99 only; version 0.99.0 only; version 0.99.1 only; version 0.99.2 only; version 0.99.3 only; version 0.99.4 only; …

Published 2007-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.