CVE-2008-3146: Wireshark

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in packet_ncp2222.inc in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.7 through 1.0.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted NCP packet that causes an invalid pointer to be used.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 0.9.7 only; version 0.9.8 only; version 0.99 only; version 0.99.0 only; version 0.99.1 only; version 0.99.2 only; …

Published 2008-09-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.