CVE-2008-1072

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The TFTP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.6.0 through 0.99.7, when running on Ubuntu 7.10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or memory consumption) via a malformed packet, possibly related to a Cairo library bug.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 0.6, 0.7.9, 0.8.16, 0.9.10, 0.10, 0.10.4 (+9)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29156
http://secunia.com/advisories/29188
http://secunia.com/advisories/29223
http://secunia.com/advisories/29242
http://secunia.com/advisories/29511
http://secunia.com/advisories/29736
http://secunia.com/advisories/32091
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-32.xml
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0092
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:057

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