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Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerability-01 March 11 (Mac OS X)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
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
11 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with Wireshark and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to stack consumption vulnerability in the 'dissect_ber_choice function' in the 'BER dissector'.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Wireshark version 1.2.0 through 1.2.15 Wireshark version 1.4.0 through 1.4.4
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to version 1.4.4-1 or later.