CVE-2008-4684

Upstream information

CVE-2008-4684 at MITRE

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 437317 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SR:2009:001, published Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 18:30:58 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:28:35 2023