CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-3629

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

An unspecified vulnerability in the MOUNT dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) versions 0.9.4 through 0.99.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service through excessive memory consumption. The attack vectors are not specified.

Risk Assessment

A remote attacker can cause memory exhaustion and crash Wireshark, disrupting network traffic analysis and potentially impairing security monitoring.

Recommendation

Update Wireshark to a version later than 0.99.0 (e.g., 0.99.1 or newer) that includes the fix for this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Unspecified vulnerability in the MOUNT dissector in Wireshark (aka Ethereal) 0.9.4 to 0.99.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS