CVE-2008-3933 — Improper Input Validation in Wireshark

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation6 documents6 sources
Severity
3.3LOWNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 61.82%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
WiresharkDebian Wireshark
Timeline
PublishedSep 4
Latest updateMay 2

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.

CVSS vector

AV:A/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 6.5 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wireshark< wireshark 1.0.3-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwireshark/wireshark< 1.0.3-1+3
▶NVDwireshark/wireshark22 versions+21

Patches

Patch: www.wireshark.org ↗Patch: www.wireshark.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-jwfr-jmg6-pgjf: Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0↗2022-05-02
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OSV
CVE-2008-3933: Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0↗2008-09-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
wireshark: crash triggered by zlib-compressed packet data↗2008-09-03
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Debian
CVE-2008-3933: wireshark - Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.14 through 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a ...↗2008
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2008-3933 wireshark: crash triggered by zlib-compressed packet data↗2008-09-05
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