Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.7 through 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a crafted NCP packet that…

Description

Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.7 through 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a crafted NCP packet that triggers an infinite loop.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (19)

• FEDORA-2008-7936 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0890 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 31864 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11273 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 20080917 rPSA-2008-0278-1 tshark wireshark (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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
• ADV-2008-2773 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 1020819 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2675 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• FEDORA-2008-7894 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2493 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• MDVSA-2008:199 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• GLSA-200809-17 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• wireshark-ncp-dos(45309) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 31886 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 32028 (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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2008-3932](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2008-3932.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2008-3932)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 10:00 UTC.