Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Wireshark Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21078
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21078/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/1228/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or
compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to various types of errors
including boundary errors, format string errors, off-by-one errors,
an infinite loop error, and a memory allocation problem in a
multitude of protocol dissectors.
Successful exploitation causes Wireshark to stop responding, consume
a large amount of system resources, crash, or execute arbitrary code.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.99.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Ilja van Sprundel for reporting some of the
vulnerabilities.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2006-01.html
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