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CVE-2008-4685

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4685 describes a use-after-free vulnerability in the dissect_q931_cause_ie function of Wireshark's Q.931 dissector, affecting versions 0.10.3 through 1.0.3. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (application crash or abort) through specially crafted packets. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, it has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, but only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.10.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 67th 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-2008-4685Low

wireshark: DoS (app crash or abort) in Q.931 dissector via certain packets

Sep 13, 2008

References

bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/32355
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32944
secunia.com / advisories/34144
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10788
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