Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerability-01 (Mar 2011) - Mac OS X

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.802799");
  script_version("2024-02-16T05:06:55+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-1142");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-16 05:06:55 +0000 (Fri, 16 Feb 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2012-06-27 15:59:15 +0530 (Wed, 27 Jun 2012)");
  script_name("Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerability-01 (Mar 2011) - Mac OS X");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/65912");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46626");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516");

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_macosx.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("Wireshark/MacOSX/Version");
  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could allow remote attackers to cause a
denial of service via vectors involving self-referential ASN.1 CHOICE values.");
  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark version 1.2.0 through 1.2.15
Wireshark version 1.4.0 through 1.4.4");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to stack consumption vulnerability in the
'dissect_ber_choice function' in the 'BER dissector'.");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to version 1.4.4-1 or later.");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  exit(0);
}

include("version_func.inc");

wiresharkVer = get_kb_item("Wireshark/MacOSX/Version");
if(!wiresharkVer){
  exit(0);
}

if(version_in_range(version:wiresharkVer, test_version:"1.2.0", test_version2:"1.2.15")||
   version_in_range(version:wiresharkVer, test_version:"1.4.0", test_version2:"1.4.4")){
   security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
}