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Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA24016
Release Date: 2007-02-01
Popularity: 10,226 views

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

Software:Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-0456
CVE-2007-0457
CVE-2007-0458
CVE-2007-0459


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

Errors within the TCP, HTTP, IEEE 802.11, and LLT parsers can be exploited to cause a crash or consume large amounts of memory when parsing a specially crafted packet that is either captured off the wire or loaded via a capture file.

The vulnerabilities are reported in various versions prior to 0.99.5.

Solution:
Update to version 0.99.5.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-01.html


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