PT-2008-4557 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Published 2008-07-10 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-3138

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 0.99.3 through 1.0.0

Description: The issue affects the PANA and KISMET dissectors, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service, which results in the application stopping. The exact vectors used to exploit this issue are not specified.

Recommendations: For Wireshark versions 0.99.3 through 1.0.0, consider disabling the PANA and KISMET dissectors as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

DoS

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3138

DSA-1673-1

RHSA-2008:0890

RHSA-2008_0890

Affected Products

Red Hat

Wireshark

References · 44

• http://secunia.com/advisories/30886 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00544.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3138 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3138 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-3138 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-04.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3138 · Security Note
• 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
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1982/references · Note