CVE-2008-3933

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

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00715.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00713.html

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9620

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2682

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2649

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2493

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020819

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496487/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:199

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/32944

http://secunia.com/advisories/32091

http://secunia.com/advisories/32028

http://secunia.com/advisories/31886

http://secunia.com/advisories/31864

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3