CVE-2008-3146

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in packet_ncp2222.inc in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.7 through 1.0.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted NCP packet that causes an invalid pointer to be used.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.99, 0.99.0, 0.99.1, 0.99.2 (+11)

References

http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2675
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
http://secunia.com/advisories/31864
http://secunia.com/advisories/31886
http://secunia.com/advisories/32028
http://secunia.com/advisories/32091
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:199
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html

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