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CVE-2008-1561
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.5 through 0.99.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of…
Medium5.0EPSS 8.9%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.9% · top 4.8% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (25)
- 29622 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0890 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20080404 rPSA-2008-0138-1 tshark wireshark (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15089 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-3040 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 29695 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:091 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- GLSA-200805-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0138 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 29971 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28485 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 32091 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 29736 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2773 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1019728 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-02.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- wireshark-x509sat-dissector-dos(41514) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1007 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 29569 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2418 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9315 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- wireshark-roofnet-dissector-dos(41515) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-2941 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .