CVE-2008-3146 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3146
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Description: Multiple buffer overflows in packet_ncp2222.inc in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.9.7 through 1.0.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted NCP packet that causes an invalid pointer to be used.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html ST 1020819 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31687 Secunia Advisory: SA31886 Secunia Advisory: SA32028 Secunia Advisory: SA31864 Secunia Advisory: SA32091 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:199 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-17.xml FEDORA CONFIRM http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0278 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2675 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/496487/100/0/threaded

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