PT-2008-4559 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Published 2008-07-10 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-3140

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 version 1.0.0

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, via unknown vectors. This is possibly related to an incomplete SS7 MSU syslog encapsulated packet.

Recommendations: For Wireshark version 1.0.0, consider disabling the syslog dissector as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict access to the syslog dissector to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3140

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 22

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/32006 · Exploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30886 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-3140 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31378 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3140 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3140 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3140 · Security Note
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-04.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00544.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30020 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14700 · Note
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0212 · Note
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html · Note