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Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector and PCRE Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA17254
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Release Date:
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2005-10-20
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Last Update:
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2005-10-21
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Popularity:
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12,530 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Ethereal, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
1) Various types of errors including NULL pointer dereference errors, divide by zero error, infinite loop errors, and boundary errors exist in a multitude of protocol dissectors.
2) A boundary error in the "unicode_to_bytes()" function of the SRVLOC (Service Location Protocol) dissector can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted TCP packet with source and destination port set to 427/tcp.
3) Ethereal Windows installer ships with a vulnerable version of the PCRE library.
For more information:
SA16502
Successful exploitation causes Ethereal to stop responding, exhaust system memory, crash, or execute arbitrary code.
The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 0.7.7 through 0.10.12.
Change Page:
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