Vulnerability in Wireshark
CVE-2008-4685
Use-after-free vulnerability in the dissect_q931_cause_ie function in packet-q931.c in the Q.931 dissector in Wireshark 0.10.3 through 1.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or abort) via certain packets that trigger an exception.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.020 (80.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 80.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wireshark — versions 0.10.3, 0.10.4, 0.10.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499154/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm
- secunia.com/advisories/32355 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0336
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html
- secunia.com/advisories/34144 (third-party-advisory)
- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/31838 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/32944 (third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html (vendor-advisory)