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Wireshark Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA32840
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Release Date:
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2008-11-24
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Last Update:
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2009-03-19
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Popularity:
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4,468 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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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) An error in the SMTP dissector can be exploited to trigger the execution of an infinite loop via a large SMTP packet.
2) An error in the WLCCP dissector can be exploited to trigger the execution of an infinite loop via a specially crafted packet.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.0.5.
Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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