CVE-2008-1561

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.5 through 0.99.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet to the (1) X.509sat or (2) Roofnet dissectors. NOTE: Vector 2 might also lead to a hang.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 0.99.2, 0.99.3, 0.99.4, 0.99.5, 0.99.6, 0.99.7 (+1)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29569
http://secunia.com/advisories/29622
http://secunia.com/advisories/29695
http://secunia.com/advisories/29736
http://secunia.com/advisories/29971
http://secunia.com/advisories/32091
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0138
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-05.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:091
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html

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