CVE-2007-6439: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite or large loop) via the (1) IPv6 or (2) USB dissector, which can trigger resource consumption or a crash. NOTE: this identifier originally included Firebird/Interbase, but it is already covered by CVE-2007-6116. The DCP ETSI issue is already covered by CVE-2007-6119.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 0.99.6 only

Published 2007-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.