CVE-2008-3140 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-3140?

CVE-2008-3140 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Wireshark Wireshark, published on 10 Jul 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The syslog dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 1.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unknown vectors, possibly related to an "incomplete SS7 MSU syslog encapsulated packet."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-3140?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2008-3140?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2008-3140 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-3140 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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• CVE-2010-2995 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-1266 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-1210 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Wireshark Wireshark vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3140, GHSA-fxxv-cmpr-cvx2.