CVE-2008-4684 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4684
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: ST 1021069 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32355 Secunia Advisory: SA32944 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:215 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673 CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0336 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/499154/100/0/threaded BID 31838

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