CVE-2008-3933

N/A
Published: September 4, 2008 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:56 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorWireshark

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (21)

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/31864
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/31886
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32028
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32091
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32944

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20

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