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CVE-2008-6472
The WLCCP dissector in Wireshark 0.99.7 through 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via unspecified…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.0%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The WLCCP dissector in Wireshark 0.99.7 through 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- MDVSA-2008:242 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 34144 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6223 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 32840 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- wireshark-wlccp-dos(47292) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:0313 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-07.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9629 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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