CVE-2008-3933

Wireshark 0.10.14-1.0.2 - Denial of Service via Malformed Zlib-Compressed Packet

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Wireshark (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.

References (21)

Core 21
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/31864
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9620
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496487/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32091
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32944
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020819
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2493
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:199
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/31886
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32028
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673

Scores

EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 37.8%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (22)
wireshark/wireshark 0.10.2
wireshark/wireshark 0.10.3
wireshark/wireshark 0.10.4
wireshark/wireshark 0.10.5
wireshark/wireshark 0.10.6
wireshark/wireshark 0.10.7
wireshark/wireshark 0.10.8
wireshark/wireshark 0.10.9
wireshark/wireshark 0.10.14
wireshark/wireshark 0.99.0
... and 12 more
Published Sep 04, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026