CVE-2008-1561

high

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.5 through 0.99.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet to the (1) X.509sat or (2) Roofnet dissectors. NOTE: Vector 2 might also lead to a hang.

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%3A9315

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15089

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2418

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41515

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41514

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-02.html

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

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1007/references

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019728

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490487/100/0/threaded

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

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:091

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-05.xml

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0138

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/32091

http://secunia.com/advisories/29971

http://secunia.com/advisories/29736

http://secunia.com/advisories/29695

http://secunia.com/advisories/29622

http://secunia.com/advisories/29569

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-03-31

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High