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TITLE:
Wireshark Two Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42290

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RELEASE DATE:
2010-11-19

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

1) A boundary error in "dissect_ldss_transfer()" in
epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c can be exploited to cause a heap-based
buffer overflow.

This vulnerability is reported in versions 1.2.0 to 1.2.12 and 1.4.0
to 1.4.1.

2) An error in the ZigBee ZCL Discover Attribute Response dissector
can be exploited to cause an infinite loop.

This  vulnerability is reported in version 1.4.0 to 1.4.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4.2 or 1.2.13.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) The vendor credits Nephi Johnson, BreakingPoint
2) Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-13.html
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-14.html

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