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CVE-2008-1561
published 2008-03-31

CVE-2008-1561: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.5 through 0.99.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application…

PriorityP422medium5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCNINAP
EXPLOIT
EPSS
8.94%
94.6th percentile
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.5 through 0.99.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet to the (1) X.509sat or (2) Roofnet dissectors. NOTE: Vector 2 might also lead to a hang.

Affected

12 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianwireshark< wireshark 1.0.0-1 (bookworm)wireshark 1.0.0-1 (bookworm)
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark>= 0 < 1.0.0-11.0.0-1
wiresharkwireshark>= 0 < 1.0.0-11.0.0-1
wiresharkwireshark>= 0 < 1.0.0-11.0.0-1
wiresharkwireshark>= 0 < 1.0.0-11.0.0-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv5.0MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.0LOW
vendor_redhat5.0MEDIUM
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