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Wireshark Packet Reassembly Denial of Service Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA31044  
Release Date: 2008-07-11
Last Update: 2008-07-15

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

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

CVE reference:CVE-2008-3145 (Secunia mirror)

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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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Solution:
Update to version 1.0.2.
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2008-07-15: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
wnpa-sec-2008-04:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-04.html



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