Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29569
VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/29569/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Wireshark 1.x
https://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:
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-02.html
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