Secunia Security Advisory - Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Wireshark Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46644
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-11-02
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DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service)
and compromise a vulnerable system.
1) An error related to an uninitialised variable within the CSN.1
dissector can be exploited to cause a crash.
Note: This vulnerability only affects versions 1.6.0 to 1.6.2.
2) A NULL pointer dereference error within the Infiniband dissector
can be exploited to cause a crash.
3) An error within the ERF file parser can be exploited to cause a
heap-based buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of
arbitrary code.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.6.3 or 1.4.10.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Reported by the vendor.
2, 3) Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, Red Hat Security Response Team.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Wireshark:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-17.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-18.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-19.html
Red Hat:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750645
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750648
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