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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.007 (52.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 52nd percentile — 52.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wireshark — versions 0.6, 0.7.9, 0.8.16
References
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-32.xml (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-01.html
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00228.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/29188 (third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10188 (signature, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/29242 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/29511 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488967/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)