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Ethereal IRC Protocol Dissector Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA17370
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Release Date:
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2005-10-31
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Last Update:
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2005-12-28
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Popularity:
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11,428 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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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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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-3313
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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.
Solution:
Update to version 0.10.14:
http://www.ethereal.com/download.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
Daniel Gryniewicz
Changelog:
2005-12-28: Vendor released fixed version. Updated "Solution" and "Original Advisory" sections.
Original Advisory:
Ethereal:
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00022.html
Gentoo Bugzilla:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109348
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