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Ethereal format string vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:

SA8252

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Release Date:

2003-03-10

Last Update:

2003-04-24

Popularity:

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Critical:

Moderately critical

Impact:

System access
DoS

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x

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Solution:
Upgrade to 0.9.10:
http://www.ethereal.com/download.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
Georgi Guninski

Original Advisory:
http://www.guninski.com/etherre.html
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html

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