CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4684
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
packet-frame in Wireshark 0.99.2 through 1.0.3 does not properly handle exceptions thrown by post dissectors, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a certain series of packets, as demonstrated by enabling the (1) PRP or (2) MATE post dissector.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 0.99.2
• wireshark wireshark 0.99.3
• wireshark wireshark 0.99.4
• wireshark wireshark 0.99.5
• wireshark wireshark 0.99.6
• wireshark wireshark 0.99.6a
• 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 · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32355 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32944 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34144 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021069 securitytracker.com
- 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.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673 www.debian.org
- 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/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=2549 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10223 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14767 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32355 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32944 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34144 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021069 securitytracker.com
- 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.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673 www.debian.org
- 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/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=2549 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10223 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14767 oval.cisecurity.org