PT-2008-4564 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Tomas Hoger · Published 2008-07-16 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-3145

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 0.8.19 through 1.0.1

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, by sending a series of fragmented packets with non-sequential fragmentation offset values. This leads to a buffer over-read.

Recommendations: For Wireshark versions 0.8.19 through 1.0.1, consider updating to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent potential denial of service attacks.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3145

DSA-1673-1

RHSA-2008:0890

RHSA-2008_0890

Affected Products

Red Hat

Wireshark

References · 49

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-3145 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3145 · 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
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:152 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3145 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31044 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3145 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31085 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-04.xml · 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/2008/2057/references · Note