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Wireshark Multiple Vulnerabilities
Release Date: 2012-10-03 Views: 2,208
Secunia Advisory SA50843
Where:
From remote
Impact:
DoS, System access,
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch
CVE Reference(s):
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
1) An error in the HSRP dissector when processing certain packets can be exploited to cause an infinite loop and consume CPU resources.
2) An error in the PPP dissector when processing certain packets can be exploited to cause a crash.
3) An error in the LDP dissector when processing certain packets can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.8.3.
Solution:
Update to version 1.8.3.
Provided and/or discovered by:
1, 2) Reported by the vendor.
3) The vendor credits Laurent Butti.
Original Advisory:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-26.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-27.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-29.html
Deep Links:
Links available to Secunia VIM customers
Do you have additional information related to this advisory?
Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com
Subject: Wireshark Multiple Vulnerabilities
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