CVE-2008-3933

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-3933
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-09-04 19:41:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionWireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.14 through 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet with crafted zlib-compressed data that triggers an invalid read in the tvb_uncompress function.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.3 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Adjacent
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.10.14 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.10.2 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.10.3 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.10.4 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.10.5 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.10.6 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.10.7 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.10.8 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.10.9 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.0 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.1 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 0.99.6a All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.7 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 0.99.8 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.0.0 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.0.1 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.0.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Fedora update for wireshark - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Red Hat update for wireshark - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Debian update for wireshark - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
2649 – Buildbot crash output: fuzz-2008-06-26-25238.pcap af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.wireshark.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: wireshark-1.0.3-1.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
ASA-2008-392 (RHSA-2008-0890) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.avaya.com
Wireshark: Multiple Denials of Service — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:199 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: wireshark-1.0.3-1.fc9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
Wireshark NCP Dissector and zlib Processing Bugs Let Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
Gentoo update for wireshark - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
2682 – Buildbot crash output: fuzz-2008-07-04-16393.pcap af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.wireshark.org
rPath update for wireshark - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1673-1 wireshark af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Wireshark: wnpa-sec-2008-05 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.wireshark.org Patch
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
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