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CVE-2008-3933

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3933 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 0.10.14 through 1.0.2. An attacker can crash the application by sending a specially crafted packet containing malformed zlib-compressed data, leading to an invalid read in the tvb_uncompress function. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 3.3, indicating a network-adjacent attack vector with low complexity and only a partial impact on availability. 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
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.3LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
6.5
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0062 is in the 17th percentile among its peer group of 94 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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-2008-3933Low

wireshark: crash triggered by zlib-compressed packet data

Sep 3, 2008

References

bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/31864
secunia.com / advisories/31886
secunia.com / advisories/32028
secunia.com / advisories/32091
secunia.com / advisories/32944
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9620
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
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1673
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