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CVE-2008-4683

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4683 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 0.99.2 through 1.0.3, specifically within the Bluetooth ACL dissector. An attacker can crash the application by sending a malformed Bluetooth packet with an invalid length. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and is easily exploitable over the network without authentication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.99.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0210 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.6-EL3.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.6-2.el4_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.6-2.el5_3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-4683Moderate

wireshark: DoS (app crash or abort) in Bluetooth ACL dissector via a packet with an invalid length

Apr 4, 2007

References

bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/32355
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32944
secunia.com / advisories/34144
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14982
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9821
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm
wiki.rpath.com / Advisories:rPSA-2008-0336
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1673
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/499154/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/31838
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2872
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html
Vendor Advisory