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TITLE:
Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29569

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29569/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Wireshark 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/18083/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors in the X.509sat,
Roofnet, LDAP, and SCCP dissectors. These can be exploited to cause
the application to crash when processing specially crafted packets
that are either captured off the wire or loaded via a capture file.

The vulnerabilities are reported in various versions prior to 1.0.0.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in an upcoming version 1.0.0.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-02.html

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