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Ethereal format string vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA8252
Release Date: 2003-03-10
Last Update: 2003-04-24
Popularity: 7,277 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Ethereal fails to handle certain SOCKS packets correctly. This allows malicious people to create packets that cause Ethereal to crash when the packets are selected to be analyzed.

It might be possible to exploit this to execute arbitrary code, but this is difficult because the characters are escaped.

There also exists a heap overflow in the handling of NTLMSSP.

The vulnerability has been identified in versions prior to 0.9.10.

Change Page:
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