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wireshark — security advisory
The RTMPT dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.8 through 1.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors. NOTE: this might be due to a use-after-free error.
- Products
- wireshark
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.0.1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2008-3139
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The RTMPT dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.8 through 1.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors. NOTE: this might be due to a use-after-free error.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3139
wireshark
Fixed versions: 1.0.1-1
wireshark
Fixed versions: 1.0.1-1
wireshark
Fixed versions: 1.0.1-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:31.479544771Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 417415,
"published_at": "2008-07-10T23:41:00+00:00"
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