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CVE-2008-5285

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
01/12/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.0.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.7.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.8.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.8.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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