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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2008-5285 json

Wireshark 1.0.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long SMTP request, which triggers an infinite loop.

published 2008-12-01 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-5262

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Wireshark 1.0.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long SMTP request, which triggers an infinite loop.

Patch / fix

  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.0.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5285

  • wireshark RHEL 3 1.0.6-EL3.3
  • wireshark RHEL 4 1.0.6-2.el4_7
  • wireshark RHEL 5 1.0.6-2.el5_3
  • wireshark-gnome RHEL 3 1.0.6-EL3.3
  • wireshark-gnome RHEL 4 1.0.6-2.el4_7
  • wireshark-gnome RHEL 5 1.0.6-2.el5_3

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:0313

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-5285 updated

wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in SMTP dissector via large SMTP request

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 wireshark 1.0.6-EL3.3, wireshark-gnome 1.0.6-EL3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) wireshark 1.0.6-2.el5_3, wireshark-gnome 1.0.6-2.el5_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 wireshark 1.0.6-EL3.3, wireshark-gnome 1.0.6-EL3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 wireshark 1.0.6-2.el4_7, wireshark-gnome 1.0.6-2.el4_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) wireshark 1.0.6-2.el5_3, wireshark-gnome 1.0.6-2.el5_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 wireshark 1.0.6-2.el4_7, wireshark-gnome 1.0.6-2.el4_7
    +5 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) wireshark 1.0.6-2.el5_3, wireshark-gnome 1.0.6-2.el5_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 wireshark 1.0.6-EL3.3, wireshark-gnome 1.0.6-EL3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 wireshark 1.0.6-2.el4_7, wireshark-gnome 1.0.6-2.el4_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 wireshark 1.0.6-EL3.3, wireshark-gnome 1.0.6-EL3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 wireshark 1.0.6-2.el4_7, wireshark-gnome 1.0.6-2.el4_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:0313

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Exploit prediction

2.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.