Vulnerability in Wireshark
CVE-2008-5285
Wireshark 1.0.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long SMTP request, which triggers an infinite loop.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.020 (80.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 80.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wireshark — versions 0.6, 0.7.9, 0.8.16
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499154/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32422 (vdb-entry)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/4663 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-November/065840.html (mailing-list)
- wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0336
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/24/1 (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/34144 (third-party-advisory)