CVE-2008-3933

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% 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) 0.10.14 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.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 0.10.2, 0.10.3, 0.10.4, 0.10.5, 0.10.6, 0.10.7 (+16)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31864
http://secunia.com/advisories/31886
http://secunia.com/advisories/32028
http://secunia.com/advisories/32091
http://secunia.com/advisories/32944
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.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673
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

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