Bug 468174 (CVE-2008-4684) - CVE-2008-4684 wireshark: DoS (app crash) via certain series of packets by enabling the (1) PRP or (2) MATE post dissector
Summary: CVE-2008-4684 wireshark: DoS (app crash) via certain series of packets by ena...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-4684
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 486548 486549 486550 486551 486552 833990
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-23 13:02 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:26 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-03-05 07:37:44 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0313 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: wireshark security update 2009-03-04 19:41:33 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2008-10-23 13:02:41 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-4684 to
the following vulnerability:

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.

Affected Wireshark versions: 0.99.2 through 1.0.3

References:

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2549
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31838
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/2872
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021069
http://secunia.com/advisories/32355
Comment 4 Red Hat Product Security 2009-03-05 07:37:44 UTC 
This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html
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