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title: "CVE-2010-3133\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2010-3133

Publication date 26 August 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Low**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Wireshark 0.8.4 through 1.0.15 and
1.2.0 through 1.2.10 allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to
execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse
airpcap.dll, and possibly other DLLs, that is located in the same folder as
a file that automatically launches Wireshark.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-3133?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| wireshark | 10.10 maverick | Not affected |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not affected |
| 9.10 karmic | Not affected |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Not affected |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Not in release |

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* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [jdstrand](https://launchpad.net/~jdstrand)

Windows only

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3133)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3133)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2010-3133)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3133)

### Other references

* <http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-10.html>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3133>