>> Wireshark Packets Processing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Title : Wireshark Packets Processing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0704 CVE ID : CVE-2008-1070 - CVE-2008-1071 - CVE-2008-1072
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-02-28
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 caused by errors in the SCTP, SNMP and TFTP protocol dissectors when processing malformed packets or data read from trace files, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or exhaust all available memory resources, creating a denial of service conditon.
