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CVE-2008-3139

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3139 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the RTMPT dissector of Wireshark versions 0.99.8 through 1.0.0, potentially affecting rPath Linux distributions. This flaw, possibly a use-after-free error, allows remote attackers to crash the application. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a medium-severity vulnerability, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity to achieve a partial denial of service. 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
2.90%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0290 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-3139Low

wireshark: crash in the RTMPT dissector

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
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200808-04.xml
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43517
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14682
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00544.html
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0212
securityfocus.com / archive/1/493882/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/30020
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1982/references
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html