CVE-2008-4682

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 9.3%

exploitation probability

9.3%top 5% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

wtap.c in Wireshark 0.99.7 through 1.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application abort) via a malformed Tamos CommView capture file (aka .ncf file) with an "unknown/unexpected packet type" that triggers a failed assertion.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

cve_reference✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/6622

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References

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2926 http://secunia.com/advisories/32355 http://secunia.com/advisories/34144 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4462 http://securitytracker.com/id?1021069 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45505 http://shinnok.evonet.ro/vulns_html/wireshark.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10955 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14705 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6622 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0336