CVE-2008-3140: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The syslog dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 1.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unknown vectors, possibly related to an "incomplete SS7 MSU syslog encapsulated packet."

Affected products

Published 2008-07-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.