CVE-2008-1561 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1561
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Description: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.5 through 0.99.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet to the (1) X.509sat or (2) Roofnet dissectors. NOTE: Vector 2 might also lead to a hang.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41515 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41514 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html ST 1019728 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29971 Secunia Advisory: SA29622 Secunia Advisory: SA29736 Secunia Advisory: SA29569 Secunia Advisory: SA29695 Secunia Advisory: SA32091 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:091 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-05.xml FEDORA CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-02.html http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0138 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/490487/100/0/threaded BID 28485

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