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Vulnerability details: VCID-4agc-98ph-r7ft
Vulnerability ID VCID-4agc-98ph-r7ft
Aliases CVE-2008-1561
Summary Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark.
Status Published
Exploitability 2.0
Weighted Severity 0.1
Risk 0.2
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.081 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-1561
epss 0.081 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-1561
epss 0.081 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-1561
epss 0.081 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-1561
epss 0.081 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-1561
epss 0.081 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-1561
epss 0.081 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-1561
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2008-1561.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-1561
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1561
440014 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440014
CVE-2008-1561;OSVDB-43838 Exploit https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/linux/dos/31552.txt
GLSA-200805-05 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200805-05
RHSA-2008:0890 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0890
Data source Exploit-DB
Date added March 28, 2008
Description Wireshark 0.99.8 - X.509sat Dissector Denial of Service
Ransomware campaign use Known
Source publication date March 28, 2008
Exploit type dos
Platform linux
Source update date Feb. 17, 2014
Source URL https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28485/info
There are no known vectors.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.92121
EPSS Score 0.081
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:02:46.302291+00:00 Gentoo Importer Import https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200805-05 38.0.0