PT-2008-5898 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Published 2008-10-22 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-4685

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 0.10.3 through 1.0.3

Description A use-after-free issue in the dissect q931 cause ie function in packet-q931.c in the Q.931 dissector allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash or abort, via certain packets that trigger an exception.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 0.10.3 through 1.0.3, consider updating to a version where this issue is fixed, as using certain packets can trigger an exception due to the use-after-free vulnerability in the dissect q931 cause ie function. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4685

DSA-1673-1

RHSA-2009:0313

RHSA-2009_0313

Affected Products

Red Hat

Wireshark

References · 34

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4685 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:215 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4685 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/31838 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4685 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32355 · 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/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4685 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html · 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
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10788 · Note