Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Wireshark SMTP Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32840
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32840/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Wireshark 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18083/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Wireshark, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the SMTP dissector and
can be exploited to trigger the execution of an infinite loop via a
large SMTP packet.
The vulnerability is reported in version 1.0.4. Prior versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=24989
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Security Vulnerability Research Team of Bkis
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-November/065840.html
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