CVE-2008-4684 Information

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/32355 http://secunia.com/advisories/32944 http://secunia.com/advisories/34144 http://securitytracker.com/id?1021069 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0336 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:215 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499154/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31838 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2872 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2549 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10223 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14767