CVE-2006-5468 (GCVE-0-2006-5468)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-10-27 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:48
VLAI
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in the HTTP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2006-10-27 00:00
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