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Wireshark Packet Reassembly Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA31044
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Release Date:
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2008-07-11
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Last Update:
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2008-07-15
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Popularity:
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4,048 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
Wireshark 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-3145
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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.
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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