5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
wireshark is vulnerable to denial of service. Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or opened a malformed dump file.
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2675
secunia.com/advisories/31864
secunia.com/advisories/31886
secunia.com/advisories/32028
secunia.com/advisories/32091
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml
support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm
wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:199
www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496487/100/0/threaded
www.securitytracker.com/id?1020819
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2493
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773
www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/
www.wireshark.org/security/
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0890
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-3932
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461243
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45309
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11273
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00713.html
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00715.html