>> Wireshark Multiple Protocol Dissector Packets Handling Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Title : Wireshark Multiple Protocol Dissector Packets Handling Denial of Service Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0443 CVE ID : CVE-2007-0456 - CVE-2007-0457 - CVE-2007-0458 - CVE-2007-0459
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-02-01
Technical Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Wireshark, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. These issues are due to errors in the TCP, HTTP, IEEE 802.11 and LLT protocol dissectors when processing malformed packets, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected application or exhaust all available resources via a specially crafted packet or trace file, creating a denial of service condition.
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