CVE-2008-3933

CVE Details

Release Date:2008-09-04

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.

See more information about CVE-2008-3933 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: 3.3 Base Metrics: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector: Adjacent network Attack Complexity: Low
Authentication: None required Confidentiality Impact: None
Integrity Impact: None Availability Impact: Partial

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (wireshark)ELSA-2008-08902008-10-01
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (wireshark)ELSA-2008-08902008-10-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (wireshark)ELSA-2008-08902008-10-01



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