PT-2008-6415 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2008-12-01 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-5285

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 1.0.4 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long SMTP request, which triggers an infinite loop.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.0.4 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5285

RHSA-2009:0313

RHSA-2009_0313

Affected Products

Red Hat

Wireshark

References · 36

• http://secunia.com/advisories/32840 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5285 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5285 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5285 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:242 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5285 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0599 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4663 · Note
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-November/065840.html · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0600 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5285 · Note
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2922 · Note
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-07.html · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11351 · Note