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CVE-2008-3140
The syslog dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 1.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via…
Medium5.0EPSS 4.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The syslog dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 1.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unknown vectors, possibly related to an "incomplete SS7 MSU syslog encapsulated packet."
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)
- 4.9% · top 7.8% of all CVEs (3 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 (16)
- 30886 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:017 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 30942 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-6440 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1982 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 31687 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-200808-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 20080703 rPSA-2008-0212-1 tshark wireshark (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0212 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14700 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 30020 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 31378 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- wireshark-syslog-dos(43518) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1020404 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 31085 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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)
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