CVE-2008-1072
EPSS 0.11%
Description
The TFTP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.6.0 through 0.99.7, when running on Ubuntu 7.10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or memory consumption) via a malformed packet, possibly related to a Cairo library bug.
How to fix CVE-2008-1072
To remediate CVE-2008-1072, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/wireshark—upgrade to 0.99.8-1 or later
Is CVE-2008-1072 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 0.99.8-1