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wireshark -- SMTP Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

7 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

The following packages are affected: wireshark wireshark-lite ethereal ethereal-lite tethereal tethereal-lite CVE-2008-5285 Wireshark 1.0.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long SMTP request, which triggers an infinite loop.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://secunia.com/advisories/32840/ http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-November/065840.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/baece347-c489-11dd-a721-0030843d3802.html

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