CVE-2008-1561 describes multiple unspecified denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Wireshark versions 0.99.5 through 0.99.8. These flaws allow remote attackers to crash the application, or potentially cause a hang, by sending a malformed packet to the X.509sat or Roofnet dissectors. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no authentication, leading to a partial availability impact. While not listed on the KEV catalog and showing no active exploitation or significant community discussion, a public exploit for the X.509sat dissector DoS exists on ExploitDB.
| 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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