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>> Wireshark Buffer Overflow and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Wireshark, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
The first issue is caused by buffer overflow and infinite loop errors in the NCP dissector, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or potentially execute arbitrary code.
The second vulnerability is caused by an error when uncompressing zlib-compressed packet data, which could be exploited to cause a crash.
The third issue is caused by an error when reading a Tektronix ".rf5" file, which could be exploited to cause a crash.
Affected Products
Wireshark versions 0.9.7 through 1.0.2
Solution
Upgrade to Wireshark version 1.0.3 :
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2493
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Thomas and the vendor.
ChangeLog
2008-09-04 : Initial release
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