CVE-2008-3138

Summary

CVECVE-2008-3138
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-07-10 23:41:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-11 20:47:00 UTC
DescriptionThe (1) PANA and (2) KISMET dissectors in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.3 through 1.0.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application stop) via unknown vectors.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200 | NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Rpath Rpath Linux 1 All All All
Application Rpath Rpath Linux 1 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.9.5 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.2 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.3 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.4 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.5 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.6 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.7 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.8 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.0 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.0.0 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.9.5 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.2 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.3 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.4 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.5 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.6 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.7 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.8 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.0 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.0.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat update for wireshark - Advisories - Community SECUNIA secunia.com
ASA-2008-392 (RHSA-2008-0890) CONFIRM support.avaya.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Wireshark GSM SMS, PANA, KISMET, RTMPT, and syslog Dissector Bugs Let Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK securitytracker.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2008:017 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Wireshark 1.0.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
Fedora update for wireshark - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: wireshark-1.0.2-1.fc9 FEDORA www.redhat.com
Wireshark Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo update for wireshark - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Wireshark: Denial of Service — Gentoo Linux Documentation GENTOO security.gentoo.org
rPath update for wireshark - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1673-1 wireshark DEBIAN www.debian.org
Debian update for wireshark - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Wireshark: wnpa-sec-2008-03 CONFIRM www.wireshark.org
Advisories:rPSA-2008-0212 - rPath Wiki CONFIRM wiki.rpath.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-10-17Tomas HogerThe affected version of Wireshark as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5 were fixed via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html
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