CVE-2008-3140

published 2008-07-10

CVE-2008-3140: The syslog dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 1.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unknown vectors…

Priority P4 23 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I N A P

EXPLOIT

The syslog dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 1.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unknown vectors, possibly related to an "incomplete SS7 MSU syslog encapsulated packet."

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wireshark	< wireshark 1.0.1-1 (bookworm)	wireshark 1.0.1-1 (bookworm)
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 1.0.1-1	1.0.1-1
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 1.0.1-1	1.0.1-1
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 1.0.1-1	1.0.1-1
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 1.0.1-1	1.0.1-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 LOW

vendor_redhat 5.0 MEDIUM

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