Vulnerability in Wireshark

CVE-2008-4684

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.

EPSS: 0.017 (74.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Wireshark — versions 0.99.2, 0.99.3, 0.99.4
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References