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TITLE:
Wireshark NetScreen Snoop Capture File Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33872

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33872/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Wireshark 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18083/
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/1228/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Wireshark, which can be
exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's
system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the processing
of NetScreen Snoop capture files and can be exploited to cause a
stack-based buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code
depending on the allocation of stack variables.   
 
NOTE: Other errors leading to crashes when reading Tektronix K12
capture files have also been reported.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.99.7 through 1.0.5.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.6.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by babi in a Wireshark bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html

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