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CVE-2008-3932

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3932 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 0.9.7 through 1.0.2. An attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted NCP packet, causing the application to hang due to an infinite loop. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 60th 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-2008-3932Low

wireshark: infinite loop in the NCP dissector

Sep 3, 2008

References

bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/31864
secunia.com / advisories/31886
secunia.com / advisories/32028
secunia.com / advisories/32091
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/45309
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11273
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00713.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00715.html
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/496487/100/0/threaded
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2493
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2773
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html
Patch