CVE-2008-3933

CVE Details

Release Date:	2008-09-04
Impact:	Low	What is this?

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.

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	3.3
Vector String:	AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Adjacent Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
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