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TITLE:
Wireshark Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA47494

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-01-11

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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 user's system.

1) NULL pointer dereference errors when reading certain packet
information can be exploited to cause a crash.

2) An error within the RLC dissector can be exploited to cause a
buffer overflow via a specially crafted RLC packet capture file.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of
arbitrary code.

NOTE: A weakness within the file parser, which can lead to a crash
when handling capture files has also been reported.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.10 and
1.6.0 through 1.6.4.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4.11 or 1.6.5.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) nechtom in a bug report.
2) porche in a bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.5.html
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.11.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-01.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-03.html

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