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CVE-2007-6111

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-6111 describes multiple unspecified denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal). Specifically, a crafted MP3 file or unspecified vectors within the NCP dissector could cause the application to crash. With a CVSS score of 7.1, this vulnerability is considered high severity, allowing remote attackers to cause a complete denial of service with medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community or media discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.7.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.1HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0193 is in the 35th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: libsmi-0:0.4.5-2.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: wireshark-0:0.99.7-1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libsmi-0:0.4.5-2.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark-0:0.99.7-1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-6111Low

wireshark mp3 and ncp flaws

Nov 22, 2007

References

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html
secunia.com / advisories/27777
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28197
secunia.com / advisories/28207
secunia.com / advisories/28288
secunia.com / advisories/28304
secunia.com / advisories/28325
secunia.com / advisories/28564
secunia.com / advisories/29048
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml
securitytracker.com / id
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1975
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9048
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00606.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00712.html
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0004
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0058.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/485792/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/26532
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/3956
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html
Patch