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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2008-1561

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.

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 8.94%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (8.94%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
8.94% probability · 95th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
wireshark/wireshark
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.