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Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA37175
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Release Date:
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2009-10-28
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Popularity:
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343 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x
Wireshark 1.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) An alignment error within the "dissect_paltalk()" function in epan/dissectors/packet-paltalk.c of the Paltalk dissector can be exploited to cause a crash.
Note: Successful exploitation requires that Wireshark is running on an alignment sensitive architecture.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.2.
2) A NULL pointer dereference error within the DCERPC/NT dissector when can be exploited to cause a crash.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.10.10 through 1.2.2.
3) An off-by-one error within the "dissect_negprot_response()" function in epan/dissectors/packet-smb.c of the SMB dissector can be exploited to cause a crash.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.2.
4) An error within the RADIUS dissector can be exploited to cause a crash.
The is vulnerability is reported in version 0.10.13 through 1.0.9 (previously reported in version 1.2.0 only).
Change Page:
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