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Fencer Vulns
high 7.1

CVE-2007-6111 json

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) a…

published 2007-11-23 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-6080

cvss
7.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) a crafted MP3 file or (2) unspecified vectors to the NCP dissector.

Patch / fix

  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.99.7~pre1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6111

  • wireshark RHEL 4 0.99.7-1.el4
  • wireshark RHEL 5 0.99.7-1.el5
  • libsmi RHEL 4 0.4.5-2.el4
  • libsmi RHEL 5 0.4.5-2.el5
  • wireshark-gnome RHEL 4 0.99.7-1.el4
  • wireshark-gnome RHEL 5 0.99.7-1.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0058

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-2007-6111 updated

wireshark mp3 and ncp flaws

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) libsmi 0.4.5-2.el5, wireshark 0.99.7-1.el5, wireshark-gnome 0.99.7-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 libsmi 0.4.5-2.el4, wireshark 0.99.7-1.el4, wireshark-gnome 0.99.7-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) libsmi 0.4.5-2.el5, wireshark 0.99.7-1.el5, wireshark-gnome 0.99.7-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 libsmi 0.4.5-2.el4, wireshark 0.99.7-1.el4, wireshark-gnome 0.99.7-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) libsmi 0.4.5-2.el5, wireshark 0.99.7-1.el5, wireshark-gnome 0.99.7-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 libsmi 0.4.5-2.el4, wireshark 0.99.7-1.el4, wireshark-gnome 0.99.7-1.el4
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 libsmi 0.4.5-2.el4, wireshark 0.99.7-1.el4, wireshark-gnome 0.99.7-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0058

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Exploit prediction

1.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.1 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.