CVE-2008-4684

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-05-16
Bugzilla:
468174: CVE-2008-4684 wireshark: DoS (app crash) via certain series of packets by enabling the (1) PRP or (2) MATE post dissector

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-4684 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue has been addressed in Wireshark packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (wireshark) RHSA-2009:0313 2009-03-04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (wireshark) RHSA-2009:0313 2009-03-04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (wireshark) RHSA-2009:0313 2009-03-04

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