CVE-2006-5740 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-5740?

CVE-2006-5740 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Wireshark Wireshark, published on 27 Oct 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the LDAP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted LDAP packet.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5740?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2006-5740?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2006-5740 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-5740 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Wireshark Wireshark vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as CVE-2006-5470, DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5740, GHSA-pf33-mp3w-9986.