PT-2008-5263 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Published 2008-09-04 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-3933

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.3

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 0.10.14 through 1.0.2

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, by sending a packet with crafted zlib-compressed data. This triggers an invalid read in the tvb uncompress function.

Recommendations For versions 0.10.14 through 1.0.2, consider disabling the tvb uncompress function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict access to untrusted packets to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3933

DSA-1673-1

DTSA-167-1

RHSA-2008:0890

RHSA-2008_0890

Affected Products

Red Hat

Wireshark

References · 43

• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00715.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00713.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:199 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3933 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html · Patch
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3933 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3933 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-3933 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/dos/wireshark/ldap.rb · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31886 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30020 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773 · Note