CVE-2008-1562: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 50.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The LDAP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.2 through 0.99.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5740.

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.