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TITLE:
Wireshark Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30886

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Wireshark 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/18083/
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 disclose potentially sensitive
information or cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An error in the GSM SMS dissector can be exploited to crash the
application.

2) An error in the PANA and KISMET dissectors can be exploited to
trigger an application exit.

3) An use-after-free error in the RTMPT dissector can be exploited to
crash the application.

4) An unspecified error in the RMI dissector can be exploited to
disclose system memory.

5) An error in the syslog dissector can be exploited to crash the
application via an incomplete SS7 MSU syslog encapsulated packet.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 0.9.5 through 1.0.0.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.1.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html

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