CVE-2008-4682: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 9.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 0.99.7 only; version 0.99.8 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; …

Published 2008-10-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.