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CVE-2007-6450

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-6450 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the RPL dissector in Wireshark versions 0.9.8 through 0.99.6. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger an infinite loop within the application through unspecified vectors. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is rated as medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, with the potential impact limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0293 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: libsmi-0:0.4.5-3.el3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: wireshark-0:0.99.7-EL3.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: libsmi-0:0.4.5-2.el4
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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-2007-6450Low

wireshark RPL 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
secunia.com / advisories/28288
secunia.com / advisories/28304
secunia.com / advisories/28315
secunia.com / advisories/28325
secunia.com / advisories/28564
secunia.com / advisories/28583
secunia.com / advisories/29048
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200712-23.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/39186
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1975
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11442
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0004
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1446
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0058.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0059.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/485792/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/27071
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2007-03.html
Vendor Advisory