Improper Input Validation Affecting wireshark package, versions [0.10.2,1.0.2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318489
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed4 Sept 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Sep 2008

CVE-2008-3933  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for wireshark.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. 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.

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