CVE-2008-1561: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 8.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.5 through 0.99.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet to the (1) X.509sat or (2) Roofnet dissectors. NOTE: Vector 2 might also lead to a hang.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 0.99.2 only; version 0.99.3 only; version 0.99.4 only; version 0.99.5 only; version 0.99.6 only; version 0.99.7 only; …

Published 2008-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.