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CVE-2008-3138

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3138 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 0.99.3 through 1.0.0, specifically within the PANA and KISMET dissectors. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause the Wireshark application to stop. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, indicating a low attack complexity and no confidentiality or integrity impact, but a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rpath:rpath_linux:1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.3-EL3.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.3-3.el4_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.3-4.el5_2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-3138Low

wireshark: unexpected exit in the PANA and KISMET dissectors

Jun 30, 2008

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
secunia.com / advisories/30886
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/30942
secunia.com / advisories/31085
secunia.com / advisories/31378
secunia.com / advisories/31687
secunia.com / advisories/32091
secunia.com / advisories/32944
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200808-04.xml
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43519
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10536
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14898
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00544.html
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0212
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1673
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/493882/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/30020
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1982/references
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2773
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html