Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2007-6438

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-6438 describes an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability within the SMB dissector of Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) version 0.99.6. This flaw allows remote attackers to disrupt the application's availability through unknown vectors. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered a medium-severity vulnerability, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.99.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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 (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-2007-6438Low

wireshark SMB dissector crash

Dec 18, 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/28288
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28304
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28325
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28564
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29048
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/39178
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1975
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11785
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14734
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/27071
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html