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wireshark — security advisory
Unspecified vulnerability in the WBXML dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.11 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain vectors that trigger a null dereference.
- Products
- wireshark
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.99.4-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-5469
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Unspecified vulnerability in the WBXML dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.11 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain vectors that trigger a null dereference.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5469
wireshark
Fixed versions: 0.99.4-1
wireshark
Fixed versions: 0.99.4-1
wireshark
Fixed versions: 0.99.4-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-22T23:47:28.192091683Z",
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