CVE-2008-1072

high

Description

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.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00228.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00140.html

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10188

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2296

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2008-1083

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-01.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0704

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019515

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28025

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488967/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:057

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0092

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-32.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/32091

http://secunia.com/advisories/29736

http://secunia.com/advisories/29511

http://secunia.com/advisories/29242

http://secunia.com/advisories/29223

http://secunia.com/advisories/29188

http://secunia.com/advisories/29156

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-02-28

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00109