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.
Published: 2008-03-31
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 8.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-1562 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.
References
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29569 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29622 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29695 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29736 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29971 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32091 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0138 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-05.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:091 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490487/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28485 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019728 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1007/references cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-02.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41514 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41515 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2418 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1561 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15089 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9315 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1561 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00140.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00228.html cve-icon cve-icon
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
Wireshark Wireshark
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:24:42.809Z

Reserved: 2008-03-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-1561

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-03-31T22:44:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-1561

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Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-1561 - Bugzilla

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