CVE-2008-3146
HIGH severity · CVSS 10 · Memory corruption
10CVSS HIGH
Summary
Multiple buffer overflows in packet_ncp2222.inc in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.7 through 1.0.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted NCP packet that causes an invalid pointer to be used.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2675Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31864Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31886Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32028Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32091Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml