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CVE-2006-5469

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-5469 describes an unspecified vulnerability within the WBXML dissector of Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) versions 0.10.11 through 0.99.3. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (crash) due to a null dereference. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, with the primary impact being system availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.7.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.7.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.8.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0214 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: wireshark-0:0.99.4-AS21.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: wireshark-0:0.99.4-EL3.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: wireshark-0:0.99.4-EL4.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-5469Moderate

security flaw

Oct 30, 2006

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P
secunia.com / advisories/22590
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22672
secunia.com / advisories/22692
secunia.com / advisories/22797
secunia.com / advisories/22841
secunia.com / advisories/22929
secunia.com / advisories/23096
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/29842
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-746
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9537
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-255.htm
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_65_ethereal.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0726.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/450307/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/20762
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/4220
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2006-03.html
Patch