CVE-2008-3933: Wireshark

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.14 through 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet with crafted zlib-compressed data that triggers an invalid read in the tvb_uncompress function.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 0.10.2 only; version 0.10.3 only; version 0.10.4 only; version 0.10.5 only; version 0.10.6 only; version 0.10.7 only; …

Published 2008-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.