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.

Category

3.3
CVSS
Severity: Low
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.17%
Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory debian.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00713.html vendor advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31864 third party advisory
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html patch
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2649
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9620 vdb entry signature
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496487/100/0/threaded mailing list
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm
http://secunia.com/advisories/32091 third party advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773 vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/32944 third party advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020819 vdb entry
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00715.html vendor advisory
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2682
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2493 vdb entry
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:199 vendor advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31886 third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32028 third party advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673 vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2008-3933?
CVE-2008-3933 has been scored as a low severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2008-3933?
To fix CVE-2008-3933, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2008-3933 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2008-3933 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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