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Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA22590
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Release Date:
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2006-10-27
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Last Update:
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2007-01-03
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Popularity:
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12,242 views
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Critical:
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Moderately 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-2006-5468
CVE-2006-5740
CVE-2006-4805
CVE-2006-5469
CVE-2006-4574
CVE-2006-5595
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
Errors within the HTTP, LDAP, XOT, WBXML, and MIME parsers can be exploited to cause a crash or consume large amounts of memory when parsing a specially crafted packet that is either captured off the wire or loaded via a capture file.
The vulnerabilities are reported in various versions prior to 0.99.4.
Solution:
Update to version 0.99.4.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2006-10-31: Added CVE reference.
2006-12-01: Added link to US-CERT.
2007-01-03: Added link to US-CERT.
Original Advisory:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2006-03.html
Other References:
US-CERT VU#363992:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/363992
US-CERT VU#723736:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/723736
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