Resource Management Errors Affecting wireshark package, versions [,1.0.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318373
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed1 Dec 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Dec 2008

CVE-2008-5285  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 1.0.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. 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.

References

CVSS Scores

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