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Wireshark Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 March 11 (Mac OS X)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

General

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

11 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The host is installed with Wireshark and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.

Insight

Insight

The flaws are due to - Multiple stack consumption vulnerabilities in the 'dissect_ms_compressed_string' and 'dissect_mscldap_string functions' - Error in 'epan/dissectors/packet-ldap.c' which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a long LDAP filter string or an LDAP filter string containing many elements.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Wireshark 1.0.x Wireshark version 1.2.0 through 1.2.14 Wireshark version 1.4.0 through 1.4.3

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to the Wireshark version 1.4.4 or 1.2.15

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)