Bug 427253 (CVE-2007-6450)

Summary:	CVE-2007-6450 wireshark RPL dissector crash
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-6450
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Bug Depends On:	397381, 397391, 397401, 397411, 397421, 397431, 833988
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-01-02 13:50:44 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-6450 to the following vulnerability:

The RPL dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.8 to 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via unknown vectors.

References:

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html

Comment 2 Red Hat Product Security 2008-07-25 08:51:48 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0058.html
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0059.html