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Ethereal IRC Protocol Dissector Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA17370
Release Date: 2005-10-31
Last Update: 2005-12-28
Popularity: 12,654 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Daniel Gryniewicz has reported a vulnerability in Ethereal, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an infinite loop error in the IRC protocol dissector. This may be exploited to cause Ethereal to go into an infinite loop, consuming all CPU resources.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.10.13.

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