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CVE-2008-4684
published 2008-10-22

CVE-2008-4684: 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…

PriorityP418medium4.3CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCNINAP
EPSS
1.70%
74.9th percentile
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

18 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianwireshark< wireshark 1.0.4-1 (bookworm)wireshark 1.0.4-1 (bookworm)
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark
wiresharkwireshark>= 0 < 1.0.4-11.0.4-1
wiresharkwireshark>= 0 < 1.0.4-11.0.4-1
wiresharkwireshark>= 0 < 1.0.4-11.0.4-1
wiresharkwireshark>= 0 < 1.0.4-11.0.4-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv4.3MEDIUM
vendor_debian4.3LOW
vendor_redhat4.3MEDIUM
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