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Posted on 19 April 2011
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TITLE:
Wireshark Denial of Service and Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44172
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-04-18
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DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service)
and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
1) A use-after-free error within the X.509if dissector can be
exploited to cause a crash via specially crafted packets.
This vulnerability is reported in versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.15 and
1.4.0 through 1.4.4.
2) A data type mismatch error in epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c (NFS
dissector) can be exploited to cause a crash via specially crafted
packets.
This vulnerability is reported in versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.4 for
Windows only.
3) An error in the DECT dissector can be exploited to cause a buffer
overflow via specially crafted packets.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of
arbitrary code.
This vulnerability is reported in versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.4
running on multiple platforms.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.16 and 1.4.5.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1, 2) Reported by the vendor.
3) The vendor credits Paul Makowski, SEI/CERT.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-05.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-06.html
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