FKIE_CVE-2008-3933
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-09-04 19:41 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:56
Severity
Summary
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.14 through 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet with crafted zlib-compressed data that triggers an invalid read in the tvb_uncompress function.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.10.2 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.10.3 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.10.4 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.10.5 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.10.6 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.10.7 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.10.8 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.10.9 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.10.14 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.99.0 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.99.1 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.99.2 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.99.3 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.99.4 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.99.5 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.99.6 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.99.6a | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.99.7 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 0.99.8 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.0.0 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.0.1 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.0.2 |
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"lastModified": "2026-06-16T22:56:50.637",
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