CVE-2008-1562 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the LDAP dissector of Wireshark versions 0.99.2 through 0.99.8. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted, malformed LDAP packet, causing the application to crash. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) and is easily exploitable over the network with no authentication required, leading to a complete loss of availability for the affected Wireshark instance. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available, including a Metasploit module and an ExploitDB entry, indicating its exploitability. Despite this, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.99.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.99.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.99.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.99.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.99.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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