CVE-2008-1563: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The "decode as" feature in packet-bssap.c in the SCCP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.6 through 0.99.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

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.