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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