CVE-2007-6121 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2007-6121?

CVE-2007-6121 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ethereal Group Ethereal, published on 23 Nov 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.8.16 to 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed RPC Portmap packet.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-6121?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Ethereal Group Ethereal, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2007-6121?

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-2007-6121 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-6121 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ethereal Group Ethereal

• CVE-2006-3628 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2006-3632 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2006-1932 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2005-3184 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-0507 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Ethereal Group Ethereal vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as CVE-2007-6449, DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6121, GHSA-295v-qw27-g2wh.