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CVE-2008-3934

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3934 describes an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Wireshark versions 0.99.6 through 1.0.2. An attacker could crash the application by providing a specially crafted Tektronix .rf5 file. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.3, indicating a low severity, with an adjacent network attack vector and 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
0.99.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.6aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.6a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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-2008-3934Low

wireshark: crash via crafted Tektronix .rf5 file

Sep 3, 2008

References

secunia.com / advisories/31864
secunia.com / advisories/31886
secunia.com / advisories/32028
secunia.com / advisories/32091
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15087
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9920
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
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