CVE-2008-3934

Status: ModifiedLow (3.3)—
Unspecified vulnerability in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.6 through 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Tektronix .rf5 file.
CVSS

Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Base score: 3.3
Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.62%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 48
Score date: 10/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)

Wireshark — Wireshark
CWEs

CWE-20, NVD-CWE-noinfo
References

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