4.7

CVE-2008-1072: wireshark

CVSS: 4.7v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2008-1072
Published 28-02-2008Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-1072 is a medium (CVSS 4.7) vulnerability in wireshark. EPSS estimates a 0.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 52.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
19/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.7/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.72%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
RHSA-2008:0890

Timeline

  1. 28-02-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The TFTP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.6.0 through 0.99.7, when running on Ubuntu 7.10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or memory consumption) via a malformed packet, possibly related to a Cairo library bug.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.72%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

53%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.72% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.72%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • wireshark< 0.99.8-1
Wireshark1 product
  • wireshark0.6 | 0.7.9 | 0.8.16 | 0.9.10 | 0.10 | 0.10.4 | 0.10.13 | 0.99 | 0.99.1 | 0.99.2 | 0.99.3 | 0.99.4 | 0.99.5 | 0.99.6 | 0.99.7

2 vendors · 2 products

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