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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2008-1562

The LDAP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.2 through 0.99.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5740.

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 50.7%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 50.7%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

The LDAP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.2 through 0.99.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5740.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
50.69% probability · 99th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20
Affected
wireshark/wireshark
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

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