PT-2008-5897 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Published 2008-10-22 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-4684

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 0.99.2 through 1.0.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, by sending a certain series of packets. This can be achieved when the PRP or MATE post dissector is enabled.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 0.99.2 through 1.0.3, consider disabling the PRP and MATE post dissectors as a temporary workaround to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4684

DSA-1673-1

RHSA-2009:0313

RHSA-2009_0313

Affected Products

Red Hat

Wireshark

References · 35

• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:215 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4684 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4684 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4684 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/31838 · Patch
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4684 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32355 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0599 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0600 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5285 · Note
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2922 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4682 · Note