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FreeBSD Ports: wireshark, wireshark-lite

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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 CVE-2010-0304 Multiple buffer overflows in the LWRES dissector in Wireshark 0.9.15 through 1.0.10 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed packet, as demonstrated using a stack-based buffer overflow to the dissect_getaddrsbyname_request function.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://secunia.com/advisories/38257/ http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-02.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/bb0a8795-15dc-11df-bf0a-002170daae37.html

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