CVE-2006-4805

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2006-10-30
Bugzilla:
1618202: CVE-2006-4805 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

epan/dissectors/packet-xot.c in the XOT dissector (dissect_xot_pdu) in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.8 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via an encoded XOT packet that produces a zero length value when it is decoded.

Find out more about CVE-2006-4805 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (wireshark) RHSA-2006:0726 2006-11-09
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (wireshark) RHSA-2006:0726 2006-11-09
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (wireshark) RHSA-2006:0726 2006-11-09

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