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Wireshark DOS Vulnerability-02 Sep14 (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

9 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

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

Insight

Insight

Flaws are due to, - Error in the get_quoted_string and get_unquoted_string functions in epan/dissectors/packet-cups.c in the CUPS dissector. - The dissect_hip_tlv function in epan/dissectors/packet-hip.c in the HIP dissector does not properly handle a NULL tree.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Wireshark version 1.12.x before 1.12.1 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 1.12.1 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)