CVE-2008-5285

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-11-22
CWE:
CWE-835
Bugzilla:
472737: CVE-2008-5285 wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in SMTP dissector via large SMTP request

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Wireshark 1.0.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long SMTP request, which triggers an infinite loop.

Find out more about CVE-2008-5285 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue has been addressed in Wireshark packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (wireshark) RHSA-2009:0313 2009-03-04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (wireshark) RHSA-2009:0313 2009-03-04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (wireshark) RHSA-2009:0313 2009-03-04

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