CVE-2008-5285: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Wireshark 1.0.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long SMTP request, which triggers an infinite loop.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: up to and including 1.0.4; version 0.6 only; version 0.7.9 only; version 0.8.16 only; version 0.8.19 only; version 0.9.5 only; …

Published 2008-12-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.