CVE-2008-3139

Summary

CVECVE-2008-3139
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 RTMPT dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.8 through 1.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors. NOTE: this might be due to a use-after-free error.

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
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
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
[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
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
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
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.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 Hat2008-07-11Tomas HogerNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.
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