VDB

CVE-2008-3140

CVE-2008-3140 PUBLISHED

Reported by mitre · Published July 10, 2008

The syslog dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 1.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unknown vectors, possibly related to an "incomplete SS7 MSU syslog encapsulated packet."

Affected products

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Timeline

  • Jul 10, 2008 CVE Published
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score (30 in total, the first dated here)
  • Apr 8, 2026 Security Advisory (3 in total, the first dated here)
  • Jun 16, 2026 CVE Updated

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The same record, from the CLI:

vulnetix vdb vuln CVE-2008-3140
vulnetix vdb fixes CVE-2008-3140

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curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/CVE-2008-3140/fixes/registry"

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