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>> Wireshark SMTP Data Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : Wireshark SMTP Data Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-3231
CVE ID : CVE-2008-5285
CWE ID : CWE-399
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-11-24
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A vulnerability has been identified in Wireshark, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error when processing specially crafted SMTP requests, which could cause a vulnerable application to exhaust all available memory resources, creating a denial of service condition.
Affected Products
Wireshark version 1.0.4 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3231
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Security Vulnerability Research Team of Bkis (SVRT-Bkis).
ChangeLog
2008-11-24 : Initial release
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