Improper input validation in Wireshark

CVE-2008-3933

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.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.006 (46.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Wireshark — versions 0.10.2, 0.10.3, 0.10.4
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References