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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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