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Wireshark Packet Reassembly Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA31044
Release Date: 2008-07-11
Last Update: 2008-07-15
Popularity: 6,138 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x
Wireshark 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when reassembling packets and can be exploited to cause the application to crash when processing a series of malformed packets that are either captured off the wire or loaded via a capture file.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.8.19 to 1.0.1.

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