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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2006-3632 json

Buffer overflow in Wireshark (aka Ethereal) 0.8.16 to 0.99.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbi…

published 2006-07-18 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-3627

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.5%
EPSS 7.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Buffer overflow in Wireshark (aka Ethereal) 0.8.16 to 0.99.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via the NFS dissector.

Patch / fix

  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.99.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-3632

  • wireshark RHEL 3 0.99.2-EL3.1
  • wireshark RHEL 4 0.99.2-EL4.1
  • wireshark-gnome RHEL 3 0.99.2-EL3.1
  • wireshark-gnome RHEL 4 0.99.2-EL4.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0602

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-3632 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 wireshark 0.99.2-EL3.1, wireshark-gnome 0.99.2-EL3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 wireshark 0.99.2-EL3.1, wireshark-gnome 0.99.2-EL3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 wireshark 0.99.2-EL4.1, wireshark-gnome 0.99.2-EL4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 wireshark 0.99.2-EL4.1, wireshark-gnome 0.99.2-EL4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 wireshark 0.99.2-EL3.1, wireshark-gnome 0.99.2-EL3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 wireshark 0.99.2-EL4.1, wireshark-gnome 0.99.2-EL4.1
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 wireshark 0.99.2-EL3.1, wireshark-gnome 0.99.2-EL3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 wireshark 0.99.2-EL4.1, wireshark-gnome 0.99.2-EL4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0602

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Exploit prediction

7.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.