CVE-2008-4684: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 0.99.2 only; version 0.99.3 only; version 0.99.4 only; version 0.99.5 only; version 0.99.6 only; version 0.99.6a only; …

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