CVE-2008-3933
LOW · CVSS 3.3EPSS 0.6%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 0.6% (50th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-3918)
- Published
- September 4, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-3918 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
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- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
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- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
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- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31864
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31886
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32028
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32091
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32944
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:199
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496487/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020819
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2493
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html(Patch)
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2649
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2682
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9620
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00713.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00715.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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