PT-2008-5895 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Shinnok · Published 2008-10-22 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-4682

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 0.99.7 through 1.0.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in the application aborting. This is achieved by providing a malformed Tamos CommView capture file, specifically a .ncf file, that contains an unknown or unexpected packet type, which triggers a failed assertion.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 0.99.7 through 1.0.3, consider avoiding the use of .ncf files from untrusted sources until a fix is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of .ncf files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4682

RHSA-2009:0313

RHSA-2009_0313

Affected Products

Red Hat

Wireshark

References · 38

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/6622 · Exploit
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:215 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4682 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4682 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/31838 · Patch
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32355 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4682 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4682 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45505 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0600 · Note
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2922 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4682 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4683 · Note