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Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29569
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Release Date:
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2008-03-28
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Last Update:
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2008-04-03
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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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Unpatched
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| Software: | Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-1561 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-1562 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-1563 (Secunia mirror)
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This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released! |
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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).
The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors in the X.509sat, Roofnet, LDAP, and SCCP dissectors. These can be exploited to cause the application to crash when processing specially crafted packets that are either captured off the wire or loaded via a capture file.
The vulnerabilities are reported in various versions prior to 1.0.0.
Solution:
Upgrade to version 1.0.0.
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2008-04-01: Added CVE reference.
2008-04-03: Updated "Solution" section. Corrected list of affected products.
Original Advisory:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-02.html
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