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Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerability March-11 (Mac OS X)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.3
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
11 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with Wireshark and is prone to multiple DoS vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to 'Off-by-one' error in the dissect_6lowpan_iphc function in packet-6lowpan.c
Affected Software
Affected Software
Wireshark version 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 on Mac Os X
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to the Wireshark version 1.4.4 or later.