Vulnerability in Wireshark

CVE-2008-1072

The TFTP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.6.0 through 0.99.7, when running on Ubuntu 7.10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or memory consumption) via a malformed packet, possibly related to a Cairo library bug.

EPSS: 0.007 (50.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Wireshark — versions 0.6, 0.7.9, 0.8.16
  • N/a — versions n/a

References