PT-2008-2669 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Published 2008-02-28 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-1070

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 0.99.5 through 0.99.7

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, via a malformed packet. This is related to the SCTP dissector in Wireshark.

Recommendations For versions 0.99.5 through 0.99.7, consider updating to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the SCTP dissector until a patch is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-1070

RHSA-2008:0890

RHSA-2008_0890

Affected Products

Red Hat

Wireshark

References · 46

• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00140.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1070 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29156 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-32.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1070 · Security Note
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00228.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-1070 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-1070 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:057 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/dos/wireshark/ldap.rb · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30020 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773 · Note