Secunia Advisory SA40112

Wireshark Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA40112
Release Date 2010-06-10
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Wireshark 1.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.

  

Description
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) A NULL pointer dereference error exists within the SMB dissector.

2) A stack overflow error exists within the ASN.1 BER dissector.

3) A NULL pointer dereference error exists within the SMB PIPE dissector.

Note: This may only affect platforms where "vsnprintf()" crashes when handling NULL pointers.

4) An infinite loop exists within the SigComp Universal Decompressor Virtual Machine.

5) An off-by-one error exists within the SigComp Universal Decompressor Virtual Machine.

Solution
Update to version 1.0.14 and 1.2.9.

Provided and/or discovered by
1, 3, 4, 5) Reported by the vendor.
2) The vendor credits J. Oquendo.

Original Advisory
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-05.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-06.html

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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