CVE-2008-3932

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.7 through 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a crafted NCP packet that triggers an infinite loop.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.10.3, 0.10.4 (+23)

References

http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2675
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
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496487/100/0/threaded
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020819

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