CVE-2008-1561

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-03-31

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.5 through 0.99.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet to the (1) X.509sat or (2) Roofnet dissectors. NOTE: Vector 2 might also lead to a hang.

See more information about CVE-2008-1561 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (wireshark)	ELSA-2008-0890	2008-10-01
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (wireshark)	ELSA-2008-0890	2008-10-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (wireshark)	ELSA-2008-0890	2008-10-01

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