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Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities May16 (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

7 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

This host is installed with Wireshark and is prone to multiple denial of service vulnerabilities.

Insight

Insight

Multiple flaws exist due to, - 'epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc' script in the NCP dissector does not properly initialize memory for search patterns. - 'epan/reassemble.c' script in TShark relies on incorrect special-case handling of truncated Tvb data structures. - 'epan/dissectors/packet-mswsp.c' script in the MS-WSP dissector does not ensure that data is available before array allocation. - An integer signedness error in 'epan/dissectors/packet-mswsp.c' script in the MS-WSP dissector

Affected Software

Affected Software

Wireshark version 2.0.x before 2.0.3 on Mac OS X

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to Wireshark version 2.0.3 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)