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.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3933
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2649
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2682
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9620
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00713.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00715.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31864
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31886
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32028
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32091
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32944
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:199
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496487/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020819
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2493
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2773
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html