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Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA32355
Release Date: 2008-10-21
Last Update: 2008-10-24
Popularity: 4,287 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x
Wireshark 1.x

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities and a weakness have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An error within the Bluetooth ACL dissector can be exploited to cause a crash via specially crafted packets.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.99.2 to 1.0.3.

2) An error within the Q.931 dissector can be exploited to cause a crash via specially crafted packets.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.10.3 to 1.0.3.

3) Uninitialised data structures within the Bluetooth RFCOMM and USB dissector can be exploited to cause a crash via specially crafted packets.

The weakness and the vulnerability affect versions 0.99.7 to 1.0.3.

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