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CVE-2008-1070

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1070 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Wireshark versions 0.99.5 through 0.99.7. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted, malformed SCTP packet, causing the Wireshark application to crash. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.7.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.8.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

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-2008-1070Low

wireshark: SCTP dissector crash

Feb 27, 2007

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html
secunia.com / advisories/29156
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29188
secunia.com / advisories/29223
secunia.com / advisories/29242
secunia.com / advisories/29511
secunia.com / advisories/29736
secunia.com / advisories/32091
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200803-32.xml
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-2296
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11378
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14995
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00140.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00228.html
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0092
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/488967/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/28025
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0704
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2773
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2008-01.html
Vendor Advisory