CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4682
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
wtap.c in Wireshark 0.99.7 through 1.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application abort) via a malformed Tamos CommView capture file (aka .ncf file) with an "unknown/unexpected packet type" that triggers a failed assertion.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 0.99.7
• wireshark wireshark 0.99.8
• wireshark wireshark 1.0
• wireshark wireshark 1.0.0
• wireshark wireshark 1.0.1
• wireshark wireshark 1.0.2
• wireshark wireshark 1.0.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32355 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34144 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4462 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021069 securitytracker.com
- http://shinnok.evonet.ro/vulns_html/wireshark.html shinnok.evonet.ro
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm support.avaya.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0336 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:215 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499154/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31468 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31838 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2872 www.vupen.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2926 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45505 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10955 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14705 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6622 www.exploit-db.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32355 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34144 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4462 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021069 securitytracker.com
- http://shinnok.evonet.ro/vulns_html/wireshark.html shinnok.evonet.ro
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm support.avaya.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0336 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:215 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499154/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31468 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31838 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2872 www.vupen.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2926 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45505 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10955 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14705 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6622 www.exploit-db.com