| Name | CVE-2008-1072 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 469488 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | buster | 2.6.20-0+deb10u4 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u7 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 4.0.6-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.0.8-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| ethereal | source | sarge | (not affected) | | | |
| wireshark | source | etch | (not affected) | | | |
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 0.99.8-1 | low | | 469488 |
Notes
[etch] - wireshark <not-affected> (Only affected in conjunction with later libcairo)
[sarge] - ethereal <not-affected> (Only affected in conjunction with later libcairo)