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Vulnerability details: VCID-7tc8-hq4y-9bah
Vulnerability ID VCID-7tc8-hq4y-9bah
Aliases CVE-2008-3140
Summary Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark.
Status Published
Exploitability 2.0
Weighted Severity 4.5
Risk 9.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.05865 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-3140
epss 0.05865 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-3140
epss 0.05865 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-3140
epss 0.05865 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-3140
epss 0.05865 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-3140
epss 0.05865 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-3140
epss 0.05865 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-3140
epss 0.05865 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-3140
cvssv2 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3140
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2008-3140.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-3140
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3140
http://secunia.com/advisories/30886
http://secunia.com/advisories/30942
http://secunia.com/advisories/31085
http://secunia.com/advisories/31378
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-04.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020404
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43518
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14700
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00544.html
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0212
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493882/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30020
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1982/references
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html
454973 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454973
488834 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488834
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2008-3140 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3140
CVE-2008-3140;OSVDB-46651 Exploit https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/multiple/dos/32006.txt
CVE-2008-3140;OSVDB-46651 Exploit https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30020/info
GLSA-200808-04 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200808-04
Data source Exploit-DB
Date added June 30, 2008
Description Wireshark 1.0.0 - Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Ransomware campaign use Known
Source publication date June 30, 2008
Exploit type dos
Platform multiple
Source update date March 3, 2014
Source URL https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30020/info
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3140
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.90521
EPSS Score 0.05865
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:03:21.909898+00:00 Gentoo Importer Import https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200808-04 38.0.0