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Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA31674
Release Date: 2008-09-04
Last Update: 2008-09-05
Popularity: 3,840 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:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) Various errors within epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc can be exploited to cause e.g. a crash or an infinite loop via specially crafted NCP packets.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 0.9.7 to 1.0.2.

2) An error while uncompressing zlib-compressed packet data can be exploited to cause a crash via specially crafted packets.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.10.14 to 1.0.2.

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