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CVE-2008-3933
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.14 through 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet with crafted…
- 3.3LowCVSS base score
- 0.62%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 50% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.14 through 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet with crafted zlib-compressed data that triggers an invalid read in the tvb_uncompress function.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.3 | AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.62% · top 50% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
21
- FEDORA-2008-7936 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0890 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 31864 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2649 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9620 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20080917 rPSA-2008-0278-1 tshark wireshark (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 32091 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2773 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 32944 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1020819 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-7894 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2682 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2493 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:199 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- GLSA-200809-17 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 31886 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 32028 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-1673 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-3918 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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