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Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerability (Mac OS X)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
6.8
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
11 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
This host is installed Wireshark and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to uninitialized pointer during processing of a '.pcap' file in the pcap-ng format.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Wireshark version 1.5.0 Wireshark version 1.2.0 through 1.2.14 Wireshark version 1.4.0 through 1.4.3
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Wireshark version 1.2.15 or 1.4.4 or later.