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Wireshark Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA21078
Release Date: 2006-07-18
Last Update: 2006-12-01
Popularity: 17,029 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-3627
CVE-2006-3628
CVE-2006-3629
CVE-2006-3630
CVE-2006-3631
CVE-2006-3632
CVE-2006-4332
CVE-2006-4333
CVE-2006-4574
CVE-2006-4805
CVE-2006-5469


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

The vulnerabilities are caused due to various types of errors including boundary errors, format string errors, off-by-one errors, an infinite loop error, and a memory allocation problem in a multitude of protocol dissectors.

Successful exploitation causes Wireshark to stop responding, consume a large amount of system resources, crash, or execute arbitrary code.

Solution:
Update to version 0.99.4.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Ilja van Sprundel for reporting some of the vulnerabilities.

Changelog:
2006-11-13: Added new information from Wireshark. Added new CVE identifiers and updated "Solution" and "Original Advisory" sections.
2006-12-01: Added link to US-CERT.

Original Advisory:
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00024.html

Other References:
US-CERT VU#723736:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/723736


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