Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4684

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-10-22 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:24:20
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.