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Ethereal OSPF Protocol Dissector Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA17973
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Release Date:
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2005-12-12
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Last Update:
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2005-12-28
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Popularity:
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11,067 views
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Critical:
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Moderately 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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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Ethereal, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the dissect_ospf_v3_address_prefix() function of the OSPF protocol dissector (packet-ospf.c) when converting received binary data to a human readable string. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and may potentially allow arbitrary code execution on certain platforms.
The vulnerability has been reported in ethereal-0.10.12 RPM from Red Hat Fedora Core 3, and also in versions 0.8.20 through 0.10.13.
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