CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-5285

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2008-12-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-12-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• wireshark wireshark (<= 1.0.4) • wireshark wireshark 0.6 • wireshark wireshark 0.7.9 • wireshark wireshark 0.8.16 • wireshark wireshark 0.8.19 • wireshark wireshark 0.9.5 • wireshark wireshark 0.9.7 • wireshark wireshark 0.9.8 • wireshark wireshark 0.9.10 • wireshark wireshark 0.9.14 • wireshark wireshark 0.10 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.1 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.2 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.3 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.4 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.5 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.6 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.7 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.8 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.9 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.10 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.11 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.12 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.13 • wireshark wireshark 0.10.14 • wireshark wireshark 0.99 • wireshark wireshark 0.99.0 • wireshark wireshark 0.99.1 • wireshark wireshark 0.99.2 • wireshark wireshark 0.99.3 • wireshark wireshark 0.99.4 • wireshark wireshark 0.99.5 • wireshark wireshark 0.99.6 • wireshark wireshark 0.99.6a • wireshark wireshark 0.99.7 • wireshark wireshark 0.99.8 • wireshark wireshark 1.0 • wireshark wireshark 1.0.0 • wireshark wireshark 1.0.1 • wireshark wireshark 1.0.2 • wireshark wireshark 1.0.3

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References