|
Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
|
|
Secunia Advisory:
|
SA37175
|
|
|
Release Date:
|
2009-10-28
|
|
Popularity:
|
1,343 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 
|
|
|
Subscribe:
|
Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities
|
|
| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
|
Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) An alignment error within the "dissect_paltalk()" function in epan/dissectors/packet-paltalk.c of the Paltalk dissector can be exploited to cause a crash.
Note: Successful exploitation requires that Wireshark is running on an alignment sensitive architecture.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.2.
2) A NULL pointer dereference error within the DCERPC/NT dissector when can be exploited to cause a crash.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.10.10 through 1.2.2.
3) An off-by-one error within the "dissect_negprot_response()" function in epan/dissectors/packet-smb.c of the SMB dissector can be exploited to cause a crash.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.2.
4) An error within the RADIUS dissector can be exploited to cause a crash.
The is vulnerability is reported in version 0.10.13 through 1.0.9 (previously reported in version 1.2.0 only).
Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
|
|
|
Track this Secunia Advisory
|
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.
Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.
|
|
|
About this Secunia Advisory
|
Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.
Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.
|
