VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2006-4805
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability4.51%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-10-27
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
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.