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Wireshark Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA30886
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Release Date:
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2008-07-01
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Last Update:
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2008-07-15
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Popularity:
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3,319 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of sensitive information
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
Wireshark 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-3137
CVE-2008-3138
CVE-2008-3139
CVE-2008-3140
CVE-2008-3141
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information or cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) An error in the GSM SMS dissector can be exploited to crash the application.
2) An error in the PANA and KISMET dissectors can be exploited to trigger an application exit.
3) An use-after-free error in the RTMPT dissector can be exploited to crash the application.
4) An unspecified error in the RMI dissector can be exploited to disclose system memory.
5) An error in the syslog dissector can be exploited to crash the application via an incomplete SS7 MSU syslog encapsulated packet.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 0.9.5 through 1.0.0.
Solution:
Update to version 1.0.1.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2008-07-15: Added CVE references.
Original Advisory:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html
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