CVE-2008-3140

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-06-30
Bugzilla:
454973: CVE-2008-3140 wireshark: crash in the syslog dissector

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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."

Find out more about CVE-2008-3140 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5

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