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low 3.3

CVE-2008-3933 json

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-co…

published 2008-09-04 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-3918

cvss
3.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.0.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3933

  • wireshark RHEL 3 1.0.3-EL3.3
  • wireshark RHEL 4 1.0.3-3.el4_7
  • wireshark RHEL 5 1.0.3-4.el5_2
  • wireshark-gnome RHEL 3 1.0.3-EL3.3
  • wireshark-gnome RHEL 4 1.0.3-3.el4_7
  • wireshark-gnome RHEL 5 1.0.3-4.el5_2

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0890

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-2008-3933 updated

wireshark: crash triggered by zlib-compressed packet data

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 wireshark 1.0.3-EL3.3, wireshark-gnome 1.0.3-EL3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) wireshark 1.0.3-4.el5_2, wireshark-gnome 1.0.3-4.el5_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 wireshark 1.0.3-EL3.3, wireshark-gnome 1.0.3-EL3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 wireshark 1.0.3-3.el4_7, wireshark-gnome 1.0.3-3.el4_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) wireshark 1.0.3-4.el5_2, wireshark-gnome 1.0.3-4.el5_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 wireshark 1.0.3-3.el4_7, wireshark-gnome 1.0.3-3.el4_7
    +5 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) wireshark 1.0.3-4.el5_2, wireshark-gnome 1.0.3-4.el5_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 wireshark 1.0.3-EL3.3, wireshark-gnome 1.0.3-EL3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 wireshark 1.0.3-3.el4_7, wireshark-gnome 1.0.3-3.el4_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 wireshark 1.0.3-EL3.3, wireshark-gnome 1.0.3-EL3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 wireshark 1.0.3-3.el4_7, wireshark-gnome 1.0.3-3.el4_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0890

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Exploit prediction

0.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 3.3 AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

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.